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    Need LOTS of help setting up 2p with questions

    Well, I had several of the older 212's here so i had to order the 2011 socket clamp for it. Glad to know it will fit, seems a bit tight on one side, perhaps not. I have DDR-3 1600 memory here to use. Interesting that Intel says the E5-2620 does not support 1600 memory, only 1333 from their...
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    Need LOTS of help setting up 2p with questions

    To answer the question, the board is a Supermicro MBD-X9DRL-3F-0. Looking at it, seems a bit tough to mount the heatsinks, will have to study up on it. Any suggestions? Also how much memory is enough to run -bigadv now without bottlenecks? Is 16Gb enough for a dedicated folder on this board? How...
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    Best PPD for a 2600K

    Big adv still around but they increased the number or cores/threads to 12 I think before you can download a unit. People have ways around such issues if you have a fast enough 8 thread machine to make deadlines, but don't know what they are or how to do it, but I am certain somebody here does...
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    Need LOTS of help setting up 2p with questions

    Hello [H] friends. Mike McCord from MaxPC. Trying to setup a linux 2p boxen I know very little about. Here are some questions, just answer by number, ha! 1. Can "regular desktop" DDR3-1600 memory be used in a 2p server-type board (am going to run Xeon in socket 2011)? 2. When installing Ubuntu...
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    Questions about 2p system for Xeon e5

    Hello [H]. Mike McCord here from MaxPC. Since you guys are the unquestioned 2p-4p builders, I have a couple questions. I was thinking about building a 2p system with the new e5-2690 for a total 32 threads. What are the team's thoughts about this proc for folding vs. the Magny-Cours or whatever...
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