erek
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Interesting.... But not any more interesting than about $20 a piece to me.
As a collector of CPU's, I'd want one of these but not at those kinds of prices.
That kind of money (also the X5698), I think pedigree is going to need to be verified. I have zero doubt of the attraction of forgeries, considering most would never make it into a socket anyway.
Neat chip. I wonder if you can run them in a 2-way or 4-way config? I don't remember if x58 platform could do 4 way but if it could, that'd be a pretty sick setup having 4 of these locked at 4.4ghz.
But why? You would still only have 8 cores AND on a multi-socket board you would be limited to DDR3-1066.
LGA1366 is a whole lot better with faster RAM speeds. 1066 sucked for some games, causing stuttering, etc. It gets a lot nicer once you get the RAM speed up around 2000.
And you could run a quad or hex-core at around 4.2Ghz which would smoke the 4.4Ghz setup with slow RAM.
Also check this out: dual socket lga1366 with overclock support courtesy of EVGA.
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I have a dual socket x58 board and I run ddr3-1333, is quad socket different?
Also why the fuck would you be gaming on a setup like that lol....
Anyways there is only a handful of dual socket boards that can OC. I doubt there are any quad socket boards that can do it.
edit: actually I don't think there are any quad socket lga1366 boards.
Also check this out: dual socket lga1366 with overclock support courtesy of EVGA.
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though IDK if you can OC the memory