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It's clear to me that NVMe support in the motherboard BIOS is required to boot from the Intel 750. Can I use it as a non-boot drive in a motherboard whose BIOS lacks NVMe support? I'm wondering if I can use it on my Asus Z9PE-D8 WS motherboard with a pair of Xeons.

I had a similar problem setting up dual E5-2687Ws on an Asus Z9PE-D8 WS. I RMA'd the first board and the second had the same issue. It would spin up the fans for about 1/2 a second and then immediately shut off. After hours of experimenting with various things, I stumbled upon one jumper switch...

Intel Core i7-920 (retail, C0 stepping), with Noctua NH-U12P (w/ two fans, it's currently $75 brand new on newegg, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608014). I ran this CPU at 3.6 GHz with this cooler. Afterwards I lapped it and used the newer Noctua NH-D14 to run it at...

They're on http://froogle.com at least, just search for "intel xeon x5650"

I'm game :)

Hmm, the X5650 (2.66GHz) is much, much cheaper. I wonder how well they overclock?

http://www.2cpu.com/contentteller.php?ct=articles&action=pages&page=118.html (The article title could be, "want want want want ...") So who's getting some of these? It seems that whenever a new Xeon chip comes out that it takes forever to actually find it for purchase. I've got a single i7-920...

2.8ghz won't feel that much faster than 2.66ghz -- I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who could really notice a 5% difference right away.

Mine's running at 3.8ghz :D Compiling is so much faster ... I was surprised, even at stock 2.66ghz it felt a lot smoother in Windows than my Core 2 Quad QX6700 2.66ghz.

Well, the reason it'll clock higher is because the execution units aren't being kept as busy. Then again, if what you use it for is faster anyway ... then who can argue with that? :) I for one will not be disabling HT, especially since one of the reasons I got this is for multithreaded...

So disappointed ... got everything today (regular P6T, not the deluxe), plugged it in, installed Vista ... 30 minutes later, hard freeze. Reset the system, no post. I don't even get a long series of angry beeps. Through trial and error I figure out that the middle DIMM slots are now dead...

Same problem here. Had all 6 memory slots populated, now I can only boot with 1 of them! Looks like I'll have to RMA. (This is on the regular P6T). What a disappointment.

I got one of the Intel Atom 330 boards off of newegg. It's great :) I'm using it for low-end performance testing for Paint.NET. Interestingly enough, with 4 logical threads (2 cores + HyperThreading), it manages to run the Paint.NET benchmark (PdnBench) about as fast as a Pentium 4 3.0GHz "E"...

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I'm waiting to see whichever one runs Fallout 3 better. It seems the 4870 and GTX 260 "216" are priced about the same. 4870 -- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131126 GTX260 -- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130400 I've also got a...