EVGA Dual socket 1366.

[peter leman]

I found a price for the same c.pu. here in oz, a bit much for me! 

Intel Xeon X5680 Hex Core (3.33GHz - 3.60GHz Turbo), 12MB Cache, LGA1366, 1333MHz, 6.4GT/s QPI, HTT, 32nm, 130W - No Heatsink

Our Price: $2,191.75 

[BF]

I found a price for the same c.pu. here in oz, a bit much for me!  

Intel Xeon X5680 Hex Core (3.33GHz - 3.60GHz Turbo), 12MB Cache, LGA1366, 1333MHz, 6.4GT/s QPI, HTT, 32nm, 130W - No Heatsink

Our Price: $2,191.75  

Well it's lucky you only need two of them for this board!  

[BF]

Here's a better price, $200 cheaper..

That will make all the difference. 

[Furlozza]

Oh, and good luck finding the EVGA board in Oz....... hmmmmmmmmm and it does take 'normal' memory sticks, doesn't it?

[kashi]

Yep normal DDR3. That's one of the reasons it was made actually. Often multi socket server boards only take ECC memory. Gamers and benchmarkers don't take kindly to ECC memory because the extra chip makes it slower and less able to be overclocked.

If you required a greater amount of memory you can still use ECC if you don't mind it being slower. Currently ECC is less expensive than normal DDR3 if you really must have 4GB sticks. If you had already spent such big bikkies for a dual system like this however you may as well go the whole hog and get 2 kits of these blue ones. ;D

[Dataman]

Introducing the ultimate GPU!! The new EVGA GTX 9990



Only needs a 5000W PSU.  

{Relax ... just a joke}

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