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Blogs Nehalem EP in the house

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Sifter3000, 9 Mar 2009.

  1. Sifter3000

    Sifter3000 I used to be somebody

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  2. R0bert

    R0bert What's a Dremel?

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    But you can't plug a Core i7 into a nehalem EP server board if I'm not mistaken ;>
     
  3. Lizard

    Lizard @ Scan R&D

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    That remains to be seen, once we've had time to set up the various comparison systems its definitely something we're going to try out.
     
  4. Guest-16

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    Ohh James I have Neh-EP Supermicro pics for you - I'll dig them out and update this is necessary (servers aren't my forte). They had some interesting things with linking up X58s to get multi-multi-PCI-E!
     
  5. dec

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    i really doubt these will sell anywhere near the core i7 920 price.....although having a server CPU in your desktop is pretty cool to show off with
     
  6. Singularity

    Singularity ******* Operator from Hell

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    I'm guessing you'd still need ECC DDR3 if you plug it into the x58 desktop motherboards, no?
     
  7. Guest-16

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    Uh.. good point. Yea, I'd think so, and a BIOS update most likely.
     
  8. Lizard

    Lizard @ Scan R&D

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    Not in the case of the MSI X58 Eclipse we tried, it worked like a charm with bog standard DDR3 so it would appear the memory controller has profiles for both unbuffered and registered ECC DDR3 :hip:
     
  9. identikit

    identikit Minimodder

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    Awesome.

    *Checks bank balance*

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