Unfortunately on most X58 boards, the stated max ram is 24Gb (6X4gb).. I don't know if that applies with these Xeons tho. since most Work station/ Server boards can see larger than 4gb sticks (ECC)..
this guy runs 48GB on his Asus X58 board: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/785147-post43.html
Yeah, but he could have built X99 for what he spent..
Yeah I'm not sure how in the hell he spent 150 bucks on the xeon processor, tells me there's a lot of unoptimized purchasing with this build, but the beauty of it all really temps me as I'm still using an old ass haf 932 case from 6 years ago haha.
Just wait for the server upgrades. Companies regularly dump tens of blades with 12x8g ram or more. Just have to check for the right ram. There's gonna be a massive flood of server ram when they move to ddr4.
I sold off my broken p6t se on ebay for 35 bucks and the buy gave me this reply to as to why hes buying it:
"we are cheating with this board at Ukraine - here we have wery poor people and we can work on these board with Xeons. Also, hour of work at Ukraine costs very low, so we can repair this board and resell at Ukraine like almost new."
I had no idea about this market practice till now lol.
Has anyone tried overclocking their chips with only 4 or 2 cores enabled?
I haven't fooled with overclocking but I have disabled 2 of 6 cores and the chip is running cooler during gaming. Barely breaks 40*c
Never have myself,but I had a question as to what people thought of this cooler
http://www.directron.com/ar03.html
cause from the reviews I read on it it gets near noctua levels of performance for the price and only being a single tower heatsink.
It has good reviews..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835220062
Just get a second hand D14 for the same price.Yeah i saw that and looked at performance reviews for it.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Silverstone/Argon_AR03/6.html
It looks like its equal to your cooler actually and really shows the difference between what it can do for me compared to my 212, which is why I love that they showed the prime 95 cause thats about the same temps I get on my 4ghz setup doing prime.
Its the cheapest thing I could find so far to compete.
Just get a second hand D14 for the same price.
Probably to cover ebay fees. Look in the trade forums of hardware sites.Cheapest one I found on ebay was 20 bucks more :/
If you just add a second fan to your cooler, it will probably be fine.. I don't know why you worry about Prime temps.. Nothing you run will even be close to stressing the CPU like that. If I worried about Prime, I couldn't get much over 4Ghz either.
Why are you buying a hexcore chip only to disable cores?
These X58 Xeons are like the 939 Opterons back about 10 years ago. It is amazing how great the X58 platform still is, even when its been out 6 years+.