Current target market users.

There are many points of focus that the suppliers can push this system mainboard into, though primarily it’s as we said in the onset a good workstation board that can be used in just about ever scenario you can possibly think of.   Which in turn means the corporate user, many small offices would benefit greatly and of course the high-end SoHo user that just needs a good all in one board that they can safely surf the net, play a video and of course most importantly safely produce those high-end drawings or scenes needed for the clients. Extremely functional.   Moving up a gear (and like today) used as a superb high-end workstation mainboard for the Studio’s looking for “crunch” functionality.   Overall a very feature rich mainboard that can be utilised in many environments by the end users.

Many self build corporate and studio users maintain the philosophy to utilise one mainboard which provides them with an effective cost performance solution.  Time is money as too are extra peripherals needed to supplement a mainboard.  Once the board has reached end of life in the usage it was built, mainboards of this nature then find them stripped down and placed into a  2U chassis as a dedicated server or render node.  After all we must note the the heatsink fans supplied out currently are designed for 2U operations.   Therefore the life span of these Mainboards and supporting CPU’s is extremely good, which brings us back once more to exceptional value for monies.  Deviating slightly the server capabilities of the board are very good with so many added value features that have been listed, therefore whilst we have covered this board heavily in a workstation scenario it must not be forgot that implementation of a server will be very good indeed.

Hidden away in the Bios are the basic set-ups required to get you up and running.  No fancy timings or values that might rattle many a monocell rushing to the manual; just a straight forward working bios that allows one to be up and running within minutes.   Today this is radically important as speed and time is of the essence to all, therefore the less we have to worry about a confusing bios the better.   Some may argue no, others applaud.   A debate for another day, though for now this is excellent as it will mean even the most basic end user can be up and completely functional within a very short time frame.  It has to be reiterated time is money and the least hindrances in downtime means more uptime and functionality whether in the server room manipulating those all important transactions, or completing a monstrous render/redraw output.

Before any eagle eyed reader may say - "AH HA CPU 1 HSF is positioned the wrong way".  Actually it is correctly positioned, this is to allow the airflow to be picked up and extracted through the large air duct that this finally placed on the mainboard as seen above.

Page 0 - Introduction
Page 1 - Mainboard and Pictures
Page 2 - Mainboard (continued) and Build Pictures
Page 3 - System Set-Up and Benchmarks Used
Page 4 - Sandra 2009 SP2
Page 5 - Everest 5 Ultimate
Page 6 - ATI FirePro V8700 - Cinebench and POV Ray 3.71 Beta
Page 7 - ATI FirePro V8700 - 3DS Max 2009 Scenes
Page 8 - ATI FirePro V8700 - SPECapc for SolidWorks 2007™ & SPECviewperf® 10.0
Page 9 - NVIDIA Quadro® FX4800 - Cinebench and POV Ray 3.71 Beta
Page 10 - NVIDIA Quadro® FX4800 - 3DS Max 2009 Scenes
Page 11 - NVIDIA Quadro® FX4800 - SPECapc for SolidWorks 2007™ & SPECviewperf® 10.0
Page 12 - Conclusions and Awards
Bonus01 - *Exclusive* Introducing the ATI FirePro V7750
Bonus02 - *Exclusive* Introducing the NVIDIA Quadro FX3800