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Supermicro dual Xeon boards

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Ebola

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I've been thinking of upgrading to a dual xeon machine in the near future and I haven't heard any mention of the new supermicro boards. It looks like they have a few that support the new xeons with the 800 mhz fsb and 64 bit extensions. The asus boad everyone is talking about seems to only support 533 xeons. I saw 2cpu rate one of the supermicro setups quite high. Anyone?
 
Supermicro is one of the best brands for motherboards.
They've built a good reputation producing very stable server motherboards.
The new E7525 boards look incredible.
They have almost everything we need, but they lack one thing - overclocking.
 
I have the X6DAE-G motherboard with dual 3GHz Xeons 800fsb EM64T and run both windows XP and XP-64 and the speed is absolutely insane. I use 3ds Max all the time and one file that took my 2.8b P4 533fsb computer 11 hours to render, took my Xeons 2.5 hours to render. I love the motherboard and its speed and expandability.
 
Yeah it really depends on what your trying to do. If your going for a stable server, supermicro is the only way to go. But there is no way to overclock, short of volt mods and breaking a pin off.

Asus/Iwill produce great mobo's for non-critical systems (like person workstations or such) they provide the ability to overclock and offer better features to overclock.

I run a X5DAE (supermicro) and i want to oc it now, but i am scared of breaking off a pin : )
 
Asus NCCH-DL supports both Prestorias (533fsb) or Nocona (800fsb) and has overclocking options. Not to mention its cheaper.
 
The NCCH-DL is a very nice board, if your getting into duals for personal use, i would go with it.
 
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