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Dual 1366 Socket for cheap

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You can get three better boards for the same price, DFI JR X58, Rampage Gene X58 and the EVGA X58 LE, all superb proven OC boards for around the same price or less.
 
You can get three better boards for the same price, DFI JR X58, Rampage Gene X58 and the EVGA X58 LE, all superb proven OC boards for around the same price or less.
Do they support ECC memory?

I gotta have ECC for my long term data integrity.

Now this single socket Asus workstation will support ECC and it overclocks like a banshee.

P6T6 WS Revolution LGA 1366 workstation w/non registered ECC support
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=WqMFKNkS6ZjDLx4S

*** ECC memory support requires Intel® Nehalem-WS 1S W3500 series or Nehalem-EP E5502/E5504/E5506 processors

Any advantage to having buffered/registered ECC over non registered ECC?

I need ECC as I don't like sifting my data through non ECC memory and risking slowly corrupting it every time it's copied or new data is written.

This board can be overclocked to help compensate for the lack of a second processor. I haven't seen any overclockable i7 LGA 1366 dual socket boards yet.

Would two 2.26GHz E5520 i7 processors scale up to more than one highly overclocked 4GHz W3520 i7 processor?

Overclocking an LGA 1366 single socket board does help me get more performance from lower cost processors for my needs. A base dual socket set up is $600 or 50% more.

I would mostly use this as my personal workstation for rendering, encoding video, PhotoShop, multiple DC clients like SMP_FAH and some file sharing. I'd be running VMs too.

P6T6 WS Revolution
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Here's Asus' Cadillac dual socket server/workstation board:
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=z1K4qLpLmyLfwXtw

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http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=9ca8hJfGz483noLk

P6T7 WS SuperComputer
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It supports both registered dimms and udimms..no pci-e x1, and it doesn't look like it has many clocking features...at least they are not advertising it that way.
Looks to be a rock solid board for a stock server though.
 
5x PCI-e....

6x PCI-e.....

Wait until the folding team gets a whiff of this!
 
Some users over at Newegg say they've hit well past stock values overclocking the SSWS boards.

I wish I knew if you can do the pin paint trick on those E55xx series chips to fool the non OC DS boards into running those 2.26GHz processors at higher frequencies like 3.2GHz.

Even if not, two 2.26GHz processors should scale to equal one OCed 4GHz i7 processor and they'd definatley kick the snot out of my Q6600 @3GHz or 4GHz LOL.
 
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