I have the Asus Z7S and it's amazing. Large heatsinks WILL work, the spacing is "enough" to fit. Two Thermalright HR-01's WILL fit with a little tweaking.
With the 4870x2's coming out, SLI isn't even needed anymore. Crossfire is just fine. And if you can waste that much money on a pair of QX9775's then you're better off getting the Intel Skulltrail anyways, since it supports it. 6 memory slots is actually not good, there is better performance with 4 FBDIMMs in quad channel.
skulltrail is the 5400XS chipset. it supports sli via the dual nforce 100 MCPs on the board. The ASUS Z7S-WS was supposed to be a skulltrail platform but it doesnt have any nforce MCPs so therefore it cannot support sli. You can call it skulltrail if you want to i guess, but its not the same chipset and doesnt have the same features so i dont see how it could be.
Skulltrail is simply a name that Intel slapped with the 5400XS chipset. As teh1337ubermicro said, the MOBO in the video IS NOT the ASUS Z7S. It is the INTEL SKULLTRAIL. But both motherboards (skulltrail and z7s) have overclocking abilities. Something that ONLY these two boards have. No other server board with two 771 socket has OC capabilities.
i have the same case with 2 HD4250 Quad DVI (6 displays plugged) , 6 HDD, ....
t29sinking 6 months ago
I have the Asus Z7S and it's amazing. Large heatsinks WILL work, the spacing is "enough" to fit. Two Thermalright HR-01's WILL fit with a little tweaking.
With the 4870x2's coming out, SLI isn't even needed anymore. Crossfire is just fine. And if you can waste that much money on a pair of QX9775's then you're better off getting the Intel Skulltrail anyways, since it supports it. 6 memory slots is actually not good, there is better performance with 4 FBDIMMs in quad channel.
blenderben 3 years ago
the coolers are asus
Ruchira88 3 years ago
i should also note that the board in the video is the intel skulltrail, not the ASUS board, the layout of the cpu sockets is completely different.
teh1337ubermicro 3 years ago
i know.
but look at the CPU layout.
On the Z7S, both CPUs are vertical, like most server boards, and on SkullTrail, both CPUs are horizontal...
zytekfan 3 years ago
what's the specs of your rig?
doseryder 3 years ago
Is the Intel D5400XS the ONLY mobo out that supports dual 4-core cpus?
doseryder 3 years ago
no, any mobo on the intel 5400 chipset can run dual intel quad cores, they are socket 771 tho not 775
teh1337ubermicro 3 years ago
So what is it with this board (z7s ws) that everyone is saying that it isn't skulltrail?
Is it the lack of sli support?
Thx
doseryder 3 years ago
skulltrail is the 5400XS chipset. it supports sli via the dual nforce 100 MCPs on the board. The ASUS Z7S-WS was supposed to be a skulltrail platform but it doesnt have any nforce MCPs so therefore it cannot support sli. You can call it skulltrail if you want to i guess, but its not the same chipset and doesnt have the same features so i dont see how it could be.
teh1337ubermicro 3 years ago
Skulltrail is simply a name that Intel slapped with the 5400XS chipset. As teh1337ubermicro said, the MOBO in the video IS NOT the ASUS Z7S. It is the INTEL SKULLTRAIL. But both motherboards (skulltrail and z7s) have overclocking abilities. Something that ONLY these two boards have. No other server board with two 771 socket has OC capabilities.
blenderben 3 years ago
true, but, i have heard the the asus board doesnt have a Vcore adjustments
teh1337ubermicro 3 years ago
yeah, sadly it doesn't :\
you can still tweak with the bus speed though to OC it.
hopefully sometime in the future, asus will release a BIOS with vcore adjustment.
blenderben 3 years ago
that looks an awful lot like skulltrail...
zytekfan 3 years ago