Interlagos or Ivy Bridge Xeon for future system?

[3.0charlie]

Aside from the Tyan S8812, Supermicro also offers a quad G34-based board, the H8QG serie. I believe that's what 10e is using.

Super Micro Computer, Inc. - Products | Motherboards | Opteron™ 6100 Series-based Processor Motherboards

May what to search for those boards too. I think they are in the same price alley too.

edit: Found one! Infonec Computers - Computer parts Canada, PC Components, laptop computers, motherboards, processors, CPUs and much more : Supermicro MBD-H8QGI-F-O AMD Server Motherboard At the Markham store.

[PerryC]

Wowzers thats one bucket load of ram slots.

[prokaryote]

Good find!

Say, do you know of a program such as setFSB might work as work around for overclocking?

[3.0charlie]

I went with great lenghts with Abo-san, the creator of Setfsb to see if he could tweak the Tyan BIOS to allow oc'ing using his app. No dice. I don't know about the Supermicro though, even if the PLL chips are recognized.
If you find Extra Spicy chips though, it's possible via TPC - software-based.

[prokaryote]

Ah well, worth a try.
Have to save up for the Interlagos chips, unless the ES can OC to 4GHz or so...

If anyone has a go with the supermicro, post the results!

[3.0charlie]

3-3.2 is the upper limit I have found, reading through the 'net.

[lowfat]

Man it would be a ton of fun to play with some unlocked G34's

[4DoorGTZ]

Originally Posted by prokaryote

Ah well, worth a try.

If anyone has a go with the supermicro, post the results!

No extra spicey chips here but I was able to undervolt my chips at stock speeds (read sig) with TPC

[prokaryote]

Nice PPD on your rig and even better PPD/Watt!

Yeah, I hope the MC 12 core will be nicely priced once the 'lagos are released. Could make for a nice rig #2!

-P

[prokaryote]

Hi 3.0,

Did you bend down the top power supply support tabs to mount your Tyan board to the HAF 932 case?
Also, did you drill and tap any holes for the board?

Thanks,
-P