AMD 4x4 motherboard spotted

DailyTech has obtained pictures of ASUS' upcoming "Quadfather" motherboard. The ASUS L1N64-SLI WS sports two NVIDIA nForce 680a MCPs, which means there is room for two 1207 processors and four memory modules (two per processor). With two nForce 680a MCPs the ASUS L1N64-SLI WS features 12 SATA 3.0 Gbps ports and one PATA for storage connectivity. There is also an additional e.SATA port on the back panel.

The 4 x 4 motherboard features no less than four PCI-Express x16 slots, that can be used for either SLI setups as well as physics setups. Because of the amount of features and PCI-Express slots there is only room for one conventional PCI slot and one PCI-Express x 1 slot.

 

The ASUS L1N64-SLI WS features two Gigabit Ethernet ports, both supporting NVIDIA's FirstPacket, DualNet, Teaming and TCP/IP offload technologies. The audio is supplied through a high definition audio codec with optical and coaxial S/PDIF outputs, the actual chip used for the audio is still unknown.

Due to the complex design of AMD's 4x4 platform, the ASUS L1N64-SLI WS uses an eATX form factor, making it unsuitable for most of the smaller midi towers. Since dual processors require more power, ASUS has equipped the L1N64-SLI WS with an 8-pin EPS12v and Molex power connectors.

 

Pricing of the board is still unclear, some U.S. distributors claim the ASUS L1N64-SLI WS will have an MSRP of $480 without bundles.