Just wondering...

Culbrelai · Jan 28, 2015

How much do you think it would cost to have a custom motherboard made-to-order?

$20,000?

Janus67 · Jan 28, 2015

That's an interesting question, but I'm honestly not sure if you could put any sort of a real # on that as I can't imagine it has happened by any major motherboard vendors. The cost of R&D, test, manufacturing, etc would be pretty extraordinary I would imagine.

Culbrelai · Jan 28, 2015

Oh, because, well, lets just say my father came into 'some' money recently... and no motherboard on the market has the features I want all in one package... :L

caddi daddi · Jan 28, 2015

I bet even having a pci slot changed to a pcie slot would cost more then anybody would be willing to pay.

Janus67 · Jan 28, 2015

Congrats I suppose on your father's financial well-being, but I would honestly look around there has to be a motherboard that has pretty much all of the features you are wanting. What are you looking for that is so specialized?

Culbrelai · Jan 28, 2015

http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/7047/SYS-7047GR-TRF-FC475.cfm

Is close. 2x CPUs (I'd quite like 4 honestly, if I am going all out, and even if he gifs me 1/10 of the funds it's likely I will) and 4x GPU slots all PCI-E 3.0 x16 (SR-2 is only PCI-e 2.0)

Basically a successor to the SR-2, but... sadly there are none, really.

ATMINSIDE · Jan 28, 2015

What, might I ask, are you trying to achieve with that many cores?

Janus67 · Jan 28, 2015

so basically this:

http://www.evga.com/articles/00668/

Bishoff · Jan 28, 2015

Better off putting the funds into a 401k/mutual fund

Blaylock · Jan 28, 2015

This has been done. I watched a show last year about a company that order over 1000 boards for BTC mining. the MoBo's and GPU's were all custom made. They didn't mention who made them but I'm sure they were stripped down to bare bones for mining. Unlike what you're looking for.

BTW, your last name wouldn't be Kilpatrick would it. (That's a joke by the way in case by some rare chance it actually is. LOL)

EDIT: gotta love the google monster.

Culbrelai · Jan 29, 2015

Hmm. Interesting.

http://www.sunstone.com/

http://www.4pcb.com/

It makes you wonder tho, they make mobos in bulk to bring the costs of everything down... So ... Just how many top end special ROG mobos do they even make? (Rampage V Extreme?) there can't be many people buying those... In fact I wonder how many SR-2s and SR-X's they made, they're even more specialized. (Also I did know about the Sr-X. Heard bad things, was considering it when building sig computer)

A baseball player's wife can get an automatic ferrari made but I can't even get one damn piece of silicon. Sigh.

Just wondering...

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