This is still using the NVidia bridge chip kludge and does not provide full bandwidth.

Asus could provide a full bandwidth single CPU board by using 2 I5520 chipsets and a single Xeon 5000 series CPU.

Shad,

The 55XX xeons are the same as the 35XX xeons except they support dual CPU operation. If you want a workstation try this:
http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=641

That board has 4 FULL speed x16 slots but you have to use 2 55XX Xeon CPUs to use all the slots (1 CPU is not an option).

I’m considering an 8 core workstation using Xeon CPUs but I’m having trouble understanding the Intel website. I’m trying to understand what the features and performance is of each currently available CPU.

Can anyone offer any help?

Thanks,

Shad

This system with a few FusionIO SDDs in raid 0 would be so damn fast.Oh I wish I was rich.

so why hasn't any one tested 4x4890 on it?

Allrighty, apart from the rinse&repeat of the no-dualsocket-on-i7 the upgrade path offered on this single socket SLI-supercomputer board is an Epic Win(tm).

With the pricetag. Also epic. 10 beers from me on the house; go forth, multiply and integrate if not converge.