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Hi MM. Great machine. I want!
Now what do all the other journos do with the ES chips they get to test? Just where do they fall off the back of which truck?
BTW, for those thinking about a Gulftown/i9 (6-core 32nm), who don't want to pay the mooted US$1000+ CPU price, there is mention on XtremeSystems.org that there will be a 2.4GHz Xeon version that should be cheaper.
Are there no other manufacturers of dual-socket LGA1366 motherboards. Asus stuff is not that bad (understatement), and they made LGA775 dualies I think.
Can you change a crystal, or otherwise re-engineer the clock gen part of your motherboard perhaps?
And I think your hardware guys might be able to get control of Vcore by busting into the connections to the CPU power supply VRMs - the ones used in the Vdroop mods.
Good luck, anyway.

Yep - the glasses. Why are old men grumpy? Because (a) they need reading glasses, and (b) they've forgotten where they put the @!!**## things. Useful hint, assuming you can buy cheapo "magnifying"/reading glasses at drugstores/markets/gas stations in the US ... You can stack them. Wear 2-3 pairs at once. The powers are additive. And strong light hides a multitude of eye weaknesses. [61, with keratoconus ].

[OT]: 1.35V seems a bit high for a Yorkie @ 4.17GHz, and I'd have trouble keeping it cool in summer. How hot do you let it run?
Yesterday here was 39deg C, and it's not summer yet. Q9650A: 4.13GHz, 1.264V, TRUE, 56deg (Realtemp 3.0). Q9650B: 3.98GHz, 1.27V (dog), Nautilus 500, 56deg. Q9650C (new): 4.05GHz (throttled back), 1.24V, Megahalems, 59deg.

short answer;
These dual 1366's have only been out since march 30 and you have to realise that 99% of the people that do board mods do them on single socket gaming boards so it's tough to get them interested in looking into a dual socket board BUT I've found a couple that are researching and one of them without getting into names is IMHO the best in the world at this stuff..
On the yorkie voltage, I didn't take hours to fine tune.
Built, turned it on, did some mild voltage increase up to 1.4v for a max of 4418mhz then backed down to 1.35v and set for 4171mhz and turned on my best stress test: WCG.. biggrin

In a closed CM 690 case with a TRUE HS with a big 87CFM 120x38mm fan it runs at app 59-61C loaded in a 72F room..
max temps I get in the house in the summer are maybe 76F as I have this part of the house air conditioned.
I't a split and downstairs is 1/2 underground so all I need is one 6500BTU AC to take care of maybe 850 sq feet.

Hi, MM. I agree that the best solution would be to mod the Bios, so that you could set the FSB for whatever CPU you are using.
Is there an alternative dual skt board that this can be done on?
To speculated on mods, I think you would need to check if the mobo can use a higher FSB before upping the reported CPU FSB using a mod. For example, if the CPUs you have (or get some time in the future) use a native 1333 FSB (QPI-Link), but the board supports 1600MHz then it might be possible to mod the CPU, with thermal ink and or masking tape, depending on what you want to do. Otherwise, and quite likely, you probably cant do anything in this way, unless of course there is a similar way to directly up the multiplier on those CPUs, and who knows, there might be. Krazes have already upped the multiplier on single socket systems, and everything else.
http://www.planeta-informatica.com/wp-content...009/09/3dmark-core-i9.jpg
I see someone else has a 24 core 000 system @ 2.4GHz and there are 12 core systems at 3.07GHz.
I expect these just differ by multiplier, but who knows.
http://www.geeksmack.net/content_media/4a15060791b1_9B01/gulftown2_thumb.jpg
Is there anything like the EVGA E-LEET tuning util that would work on that board?

The issue with modding the bios is that it would be essentially rewritten and then you can't just drop in lines of code without knowing what registers that code is effecting..Very complicated and especially since on these dual 1366's the BCLK is essentially locked solid so that people won't use a little program like clockgen or SetFSB to defeat it.
I know, spent a lot of time with Abo who writes SetFSB and then an afternoon with Franck who writes CPU-Z and Clockgen..
Neither guy could get by these locks with software and they are both very sharp people.
All the different speeds you see on the BOINC stats page are purely by the cpu's multiplier..
2400's are 18, my 2530's are 19, the 3070 Gainestown you see there is JCornells from Taiwan and his are 23's.
It's all in the multi..
No board available supports memory above 1333 and all the dualies need at the minimum ECC memory..
ECC Registered is required if you go above 6 sticks or 24 gig..
Fastest memory you can put in these for small amounts is DDR3-1333 ECC at CAS8..
I have Kingston DDR3-1333 ECC REG in mine.