JBP
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| Building 2 Dual Xeon Crunchers I just bought 2 Tiger i7322 (S5351) dual socket 604 motherboards from geeks.com for 29.95 each (last 2 in stock actually). I am trying to find the max supported xeon cpu for these boards but with no luck. I looked allover the tyan site but came up empty handed. I just dont want to buy 4 EXPENSIVE cpus and not be able to return them. thanks in advance. | |
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 Joe12345678
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| Re: Building 2 Dual Xeon Crunchers old board and DDR-333/266 ECC. and they taken the bios updates down form there site.
A old 940 amd dual cpu system will blow that away and it has more pci-e lanes with SLI.
This is a old intel board with 1 fsb that each of the cpus are on. | |
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JBP
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Piedmont, AL | Re: Building 2 Dual Xeon Crunchers and your point being? i knew they wouldnt be the fastest but I thought It would be a good cheap rig to start folding. maybe ill get an answer at EOCF for the max supported cpu | |
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JBP
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Piedmont, AL | Re: Building 2 Dual Xeon Crunchers i havent been able to find information that states that this board will support the newer low voltage xeons. | |
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| Re: Building 2 Dual Xeon Crunchers said by JBP  :i haven't been able to find information that states that this board will support the newer low voltage xeons. I don't think you will.
It looks to be an interim board that came out at the end of the socket 604 life cycle. Tyan probably patched it with an updated BIOS and a few tweaks so it could handle the last of that generation of Xeons.
I'd find a nice matched pair of compatible Xeons, a couple of good heat sinks some memory and a good power supply and then let it crunch. The Xeon family of processors are very durable.
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| Re: Building 2 Dual Xeon Crunchers Im having a bit of trouble locating a cheap case for the two. All i want is a 1 5.25bay and at least 2 3.5in internal bays and in black. those are my only conditions. Im having trouble because it is a SSI CEB (12.0" x 10.2"; 304.8mm x 259.1mm) board. | |
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| Re: Building 2 Dual Xeon Crunchers Have you thought about setting them up like a blade and not using a case? That will keep them cooler.
If fan noise is a concern or you have cats it might not be the best solution.
If the object of the game is cheap crunchers though it might be an option.....
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| 12" x 10"? That's doable. Not in the case you want but there is one though it isn't technically a "case". How about this guy: »www.highspeedpc.com/Merchant2/me···hStation. It has a baseplate that is 14" x 13", it is intended for an e-ATX board but I believe the SSI CEB boards share the same mounting holes. If not it shouldn't be hard to modify. Yeah, it's expensive but so is any case that will fit an E-ATX or SSI CEB board, especially if it is as small as you want (people tend to charge more to make things smaller). | |
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4 edits | said by JBP :Im having a bit of trouble locating a cheap case for the two. All i want is a 1 5.25bay and at least 2 3.5in internal bays and in black. those are my only conditions. Im having trouble because it is a SSI CEB (12.0" x 10.2"; 304.8mm x 259.1mm) board. From what you are describing, you want a "Mini-ATX" Case style, but that board will require at least a Mid-3/4 to Full-Size ATX case... Black is indeed nice, but is usually a bit more expensive than Plain Beige/White... Also, "Cheap" PC Cases usually come with *CHEAP* Power Supplies, and that can put your Entire Hardware Investment at risk... 
If you haven't already done so, Give NewEgg a try: »www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory···er-Cases
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| It's too bad you already bought the boards because I have a better suggestion for you. I would suggest looking on ebay or craigslist for a Dell PowerEdge 2600 server. These are very similar to what you want to do in that they support two Xeon CPUs but they do not support dual core versions (533 bus) and max out at 3.06GHz. There are several to choose from at $500 and cheaper, some as low as $300 but those don't usually have dual CPUs. Of course the case for the 2600 is huge so you may not want something that big in which case the route you are taking is better.
If you want to continue down this path I would suggest that 3.4GHz or maybe 3.6GHz would be the maximum those boards would support. But given the prices of even the 2.8GHz CPU, how much are you willing to spend on this? | |
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