EVGA SR-3 Dark Goes Up For Pre-Order At $1,800

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Heh, what a joke (sorry)

"The EVGA SR-3 Dark officially conforms to the E-ATX form factor. The motherboard is carved from a 16-layer PCB with gold-plated edges that supposedly improves overclocking and durability. On top of that, EVGA has equipped the SR-3 Dark with a 24-phase power delivery subsystem. A total of four 8-pin EPS connectors provides the Xeon W-3175X with all the juice that the 28-core chip requires. "

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/evga-sr-3-dark-goes-up-for-pre-order-at-1800-dollars
 
what sector of the market is that board targeting? The photos at the EVGA website make the board look like gold ... good thing because it's priced as though it is ;)

I'm just jealous I can't afford one just for the fun of it
 
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HAL_404 said:
what sector of the market is that board targeting? The photos at the EVGA website make the board look like gold ... good thing because it's priced as though it is ;)

I'm just jealous I can't afford one just for the fun of it
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PPL crazy enough to get a loaded Mac Pro?
 
vegeta535 said:
World record benchmark seekers. Nitrogen over clockers and stuff.
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Maybe world record in single socket power draw ridiculousness? The chip draws 400w stock, over 600w at 4.5ghz and well over 1000w at an extreme cooled 5ghz. And it still loses to TR. Though I guess if you have to have the fastest zip compression rig ever, than this is the horse.
 
thesmokingman said:
Maybe world record in single socket power draw ridiculousness? The chip draws 400w stock, over 600w at 4.5ghz and well over 1000w at an extreme cooled 5ghz. And it still loses to TR. Though I guess if you have to have the fastest zip compression rig ever, than this is the horse.
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All of which is entirely irrelevant to the hardcore overclocking scene. Intel still dominates that scene due to how well they OC and the benchmark runs that can be achieved during the brief time they're running at their limit.
 
They're comparing this to Threadripper in the article, but wouldn't it be more appropriate to pit it against the EPYC 64/128 core/thread chip? I know it doesn't have an unlocked multiplier or support 4000 MHz RAM, but it seems it would still compete well or slaughter this Xeon in most multi-threaded scenarios just from the raw core count advantage of having more than twice the amount of cores.

Anyways, I look forward to the LTT vid of him benching it and then allocating it for his print server or something stupid.
 
T4rd said:
They're comparing this to Threadripper in the article, but wouldn't it be more appropriate to pit it against the EPYC 64/128 core/thread chip? I know it doesn't have an unlocked multiplier or support 4000 MHz RAM, but it seems it would still compete well or slaughter this Xeon in most multi-threaded scenarios just from the raw core count advantage of having more than twice the amount of cores still.

Anyways, I look forward to the LTT vid of him benching it and then allocating it for his print server or something stupid.
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Nah, Intel wkstn class is closer to Threadripper even though its more expensive than Threadripper. Nevertheless it's lost a ton of its luster given how ridiculously inefficient this chip is. And really, you have 3 choices of MB's all of which run $2K with a ton of overclock features yet only 1 chip in the stack that can overclock, smh.
 
thesmokingman said:
Maybe world record in single socket power draw ridiculousness? The chip draws 400w stock, over 600w at 4.5ghz and well over 1000w at an extreme cooled 5ghz. And it still loses to TR. Though I guess if you have to have the fastest zip compression rig ever, than this is the horse.
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Yes this board makes no sense since it is so late. The W-3175X was king before TR3 came out for about a year. There were only a couple motherboards for them and were made in limited quantities and just as expansive as the Evga board.
 
vegeta535 said:
Yes this board makes no sense since it is so late. The W-3175X was king before TR3 came out for about a year. There were only a couple motherboards for them and were made in limited quantities and just as expansive as the Evga board.
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As far as actually using it as a productivity board, definitely. Might be interesting in the hardcore OC scene, which is where EVGA tends to target their expensive boards these days.
 
"Yo Dawg! I heard you like overclocking and bling, so we goldplated the... What? Yo!? How 'm I supposed to work with this!? This don't even make sense no mo'! I'm out!" ::flips the motherboard and walks off::
 
Derangel said:
All of which is entirely irrelevant to the hardcore overclocking scene. Intel still dominates that scene due to how well they OC and the benchmark runs that can be achieved during the brief time they're running at their limit.
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I don't think you get it. A chiller cooled 5ghz 3175x is like 300pts faster in Tspy Extreme than my 3970x at a miserly 4.2ghz all core overclock, and that's not even trying.
 
thesmokingman said:
Actually they do impact the scores a little bit.
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"Little bit" doesn't account for the 811 pt difference between #6 and #7 and if it accounted for that much Kingpin's quad 1080 ti set up (which is at the top of both the Graphics Score by a decent margin) wouldn't be at #5. The GPU(s) weigh more when it comes to the overall score than they do for the CPU. #3 and #8 use the exact same GPU (minor clock speed differences) and are 2370pts apart.
 
Derangel said:
"Little bit" doesn't account for the 811 pt difference between #6 and #7 and if it accounted for that much Kingpin's quad 1080 ti set up (which is at the top of both the Graphics Score by a decent margin) wouldn't be at #5. The GPU(s) weigh more when it comes to the overall score than they do for the CPU. #3 and #8 use the exact same GPU (minor clock speed differences) and are 2370pts apart.
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Seriously, you get paid to defend this crap? Look at like clocked cpus, for ex. a 5ghz 3175x which needs a 1hp chiller vs say anyone of those 4.5ghz 3970x which is feasible on water. Compare cpu scores. Seriously...?
 
thesmokingman said:
Seriously, you get paid to defend this crap? Look at like clocked cpus, for ex. a 5ghz 3175x which needs a 1hp chiller vs say anyone of those 4.5ghz 3970x which is feasible on water. Compare cpu scores. Seriously...?
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I'm not the one getting all pissy over the fact that these chips are the dominate ones when it comes to hardcore overclocking. You sound very desperate to try and score some kind of "win". Chill out. How the numbers are achieved is 100% irrelevant. The ONLY thing that matters in this scene are the results. That is the market this board is aimed at. You can make all the excuses you want, but they do not matter at all.

DejaWiz said:
That thing probably costs about $120 to mass manufacture...
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They're not mass manufactured. And the VRM hardware alone costs more than that.
 
I love how everyone justifies a $2k hobby board and pays out a $6k mac pro that actually makes people their wage :ROFLMAO:
 
I wonder if they will release a non gold/regular 1151 version. That is a nice looking motherboard.
 
Lame. I wish it were a dual socket beast like it’s predecessors.
 
vegeta535 said:
World record benchmark seekers. Nitrogen over clockers and stuff.
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This board has no market, and it doesn't have to have one, it is a publicity stunt. You can't make a profit from a few hundred record seekers and another few hundred rich nerds worldwide who will actually buy this
 
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I love how everyone justifies a $2k hobby board and pays out a $6k mac pro that actually makes people their wage :ROFLMAO:
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I've been trying over and over again, but I just don't understand this sentence. Why wouldn't those who can justify a 2k hobby board pay out 6K for a mac pro? It is the same market segment.
 
M76 said:
I've been trying over and over again, but I just don't understand this sentence. Why wouldn't those who can justify a 2k hobby board pay out 6K for a mac pro? It is the same market segment.
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just like the Mac Pro aint a DIY machine
 
M76 said:
This board has no market, and it doesn't have to have one, it is a publicity stunt. You can't make a profit from a few hundred record seekers and another few hundred rich nerds worldwide who will actually buy this
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Yep, brand perception and image, money well spent.
 
My first thought was like: WTH? $1800? What are they smoking over there? Then I saw the board, it features and all the stuff you can do with it and I was then like, ok, guess it is worth it, if you need all that stuff.
 
Derangel said:
They're not mass manufactured. And the VRM hardware alone costs more than that.
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Got some details on the minimum manufacturing figures that were contracted with whatever Chinese/Taiwanese buildhouse that eVGA is using, as well as the ODM cost per unit?
 
DejaWiz said:
Got some details on the minimum manufacturing figures that were contracted with whatever Chinese/Taiwanese buildhouse that eVGA is using, as well as the ODM cost per unit?
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Watch some Actually Hardcore Overclocking motherboard videos. Buildzoid sometimes talks about the cost of VRM components. The insane power requirements of the 3175X, especially when pushing it to it's limit, means these boards need the best VRM components a company can get and quite a lot of them. Also, do you really think anyone is going to make tens of thousands of these boards? I don't need exact numbers when just looking at the market (or lack-there-of) for the product. Why would anyone made shit loads of a board that has an incredibly tiny market? We're talking about a $2000 motherboard that only works with a $3000 CPU and nothing else.
 
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