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Cheap and reliable board for your home computer lab with excellent user manual. Running it with dual Quad Core Xeon X5570 2.93GHz 8M cache 96Gb RAM and Dell Perc6/i SAS controller. Bought used board for $30 in Aug 2015. Firmware: Needed to flash latest BIOS. With the current BIOS board was fully functional but IPMI module wasn't configurable. Also flashed latest IMPI firmware. Power supply: Using standard computer supply Cooler Master 550W with modified motherboard PS connector. Pin out described in detail in the user manual. Heat-sinks: a. If you have original ones, you can try to "Frankenstein" 80mm or "boxed" cooler fan on it (that what I did at the moment). b. Get it replaced completely, with the cooler from the boxed version of Xeon processor for LGA1366 socket. Usually $5-15$ each from local surplus store or eBay. c. With some caution try to get something like GAMMAXX 300. Need to be careful with the height of the heat-sink platform because DIMMs are very close to the socket and it may get in a way and not fit properly. Few more thing: 1. If you are using standard blade heat sink for LGA1366 make sure that you install memory for CPU #1 1 first, otherwise it wouldn't be possible because of the DIMMs proximity to the socket. 2. If you have all 12 slots occupied make sure to have two small fans to cool the memory. It seams not a big issue and depends on your case arrangement. I have it installed in "early Google" style i.e. attached with the small bolts through the spacers to the piece of plywood on the wall in the basement :) 3. Make sure to have some cooler on the South Bridge. Aluminum colored large square heat-sink between the memory slots for CPU #2 and the network sockets. I'm using one 80mm 4 wire connector fan to cool South Bridge and memory at once. Running ESXi 5.5 on it with slightly modified kernel (esxcfg-advcfg -k TRUE ignoreHeadless). Naturally, on install startup needed to adjust booting options (Shift+O and ignoreHeadless=True). Intel (ICH10) RAID controller (firmware) not going to be recognized even if it can be configured from controller BIOS, so, put controller in AHCI mode for non Windows OSes. Windows Server 2008R2, 2012R2, WIndows8.1 have no issues with the board. If you using Windows OS you can use ICH10 (firmware) RAID controller option.Read full review
Product works great and was exactly what I was expecting. It's important to know that this uses a non standard ATX power supply pinout which is documented in the manufacturers manual. After rewiring an old power supply to be compatible with the motherboard I was able to boot it up and found everything to be in proper working order. This is an excellent deal for a dual processor server motherboard.
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This hardware is a dream come true for me. I am an old tech who never actually owned a dual cpu system. Until now!! The value is literally unbeatable for a top quality server board with cpu's and ORIGINAL heatsinks. Not dirty or anything.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Great server for a great price, 100% satisfaction
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