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It's clear to me that NVMe support in the motherboard BIOS is required to boot from the Intel 750. Can I use it as a non-boot drive in a motherboard whose BIOS lacks NVMe support? I'm wondering if I can use it on my Asus Z9PE-D8 WS motherboard with a pair of Xeons.

I had a similar problem setting up dual E5-2687Ws on an Asus Z9PE-D8 WS. I RMA'd the first board and the second had the same issue. It would spin up the fans for about 1/2 a second and then immediately shut off. After hours of experimenting with various things, I stumbled upon one jumper switch...

Intel Core i7-920 (retail, C0 stepping), with Noctua NH-U12P (w/ two fans, it's currently $75 brand new on newegg, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608014). I ran this CPU at 3.6 GHz with this cooler. Afterwards I lapped it and used the newer Noctua NH-D14 to run it at...

They're on http://froogle.com at least, just search for "intel xeon x5650"

I'm game :)

Hmm, the X5650 (2.66GHz) is much, much cheaper. I wonder how well they overclock?

http://www.2cpu.com/contentteller.php?ct=articles&action=pages&page=118.html (The article title could be, "want want want want ...") So who's getting some of these? It seems that whenever a new Xeon chip comes out that it takes forever to actually find it for purchase. I've got a single i7-920...

2.8ghz won't feel that much faster than 2.66ghz -- I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who could really notice a 5% difference right away.

Mine's running at 3.8ghz :D Compiling is so much faster ... I was surprised, even at stock 2.66ghz it felt a lot smoother in Windows than my Core 2 Quad QX6700 2.66ghz.

Well, the reason it'll clock higher is because the execution units aren't being kept as busy. Then again, if what you use it for is faster anyway ... then who can argue with that? :) I for one will not be disabling HT, especially since one of the reasons I got this is for multithreaded...

So disappointed ... got everything today (regular P6T, not the deluxe), plugged it in, installed Vista ... 30 minutes later, hard freeze. Reset the system, no post. I don't even get a long series of angry beeps. Through trial and error I figure out that the middle DIMM slots are now dead...

Same problem here. Had all 6 memory slots populated, now I can only boot with 1 of them! Looks like I'll have to RMA. (This is on the regular P6T). What a disappointment.

I got one of the Intel Atom 330 boards off of newegg. It's great :) I'm using it for low-end performance testing for Paint.NET. Interestingly enough, with 4 logical threads (2 cores + HyperThreading), it manages to run the Paint.NET benchmark (PdnBench) about as fast as a Pentium 4 3.0GHz "E"...

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I'm waiting to see whichever one runs Fallout 3 better. It seems the 4870 and GTX 260 "216" are priced about the same. 4870 -- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131126 GTX260 -- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130400 I've also got a...

Yes but what about the Xeons :D

Another vote against the Dell 2408WFP. I just returned mine, see my comments here: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1264046&page=48 Just received my Samsung 245T ... so far, so good. It's about the same price as the Dell.

Oh, didn't see that there wasn't A01 info on there. Then, hmm, I don't know. It feels exactly like the 2405 I'm also still using next to it. My guess is that since it is still an S-PVA panel that it still isn't as good for gaming as a TN panel.

I vote against this monitor simply because it's impossible to turn off the edge enhancement -- there's no way to set the "Sharpness" setting to a neutral 1:1 mode. I've got a Samsung 245T from newegg on its way, it's in the same price and feature tier as the 2408, and has received good reviews.

Input lag info is here: http://www.anandtech.com/displays/showdoc.aspx?i=3302&p=12 ... apparently it's quite high. In my experience, it "feels" about the same as my Dell 2405 from a few years back. Or at least, I didn't notice any difference in that area. I've ordered a Samsung 245T as a...

I just received my 2408 WPF. It's an A01, and sharpness goes in increments of 10. Unfortunately, it's blurry at 30 and still has edge enhancement enabled at 40. Using SoftMCCS I can get it to set at 35 (the command is 03 8C 00 0B by the way), but it still miserably fails the sharpness test here...

If you're just looking for some dual-boot compatibility, for games or whatever, 32-bit XP is the way to go. 64-bit XP isn't really a first-class citizen in the world of Windows, as evidenced by the lack of support from almost everyone. So unless you have a reason to go for 64-bit XP for...

Zero. I've been running Vista Ultimate x64 for several months now.

That is correct. You cannot do an upgrade from XP x64.

Vista Ultimate x64 ... ftw.

The indexing is done using low priority I/O anyway, so everything that you're doing in the foreground takes priority. It won't get in the way, in other words.

I had a dual 3GHz Xeon system for about 2 years (it was the Northwood derivative, whatever it was called, started with a P?). That was an awesome system. I've got a QX6700 @ 3.2 GHz right now but someday ... someday I will have to put together another monster of a Xeon system :D

Got the QX6700 here @ 3.2ghz. It's very very fast. At work I have a X6800 @ 3.2ghz and it's very fast too ... but the QX6700 multitasks better and is faster at anything multithreaded.

And the winner is SLee. It is not a typo after all :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSSE3

It's probably just a typo guys.

Yeah I was without power for 48 hours. Sucked!

The guy asked, and I gave him the #2 best option, which is to keep UAC enabled but have the dialogs not appear and auto-allow. Everything still runs as non-admin by default. #1 best option is leaving it on of course. Worst option is disabling it completely and having everything run as admin...

I got the QX6700 because I do a lot of development work. And plus, a lot of the code I write is multithreaded (http://www.getpaint.net/ -- shameless plug) and posts huge gains on dual and quad-core systems. And loafer87gt, as for whether or not to install 64-bit ... I say go for it! I went to...

Well dang man, you got a very nice chip then! Mine won't even post at 3.73, let alone 3.46 with much higher voltage. I'm at 1.425v right now, 3.2ghz.

I was running 2GB in Vista x64 with my X2 4800, and having 4GB with Vista x64 on this QX6700 seems to be a big benefit. The Superfetch stuff really stretches its legs: for instance, I went to go start Word and it loaded instantly because Superfetch had enough memory available to just keep it all...

1) Click the Start button 2) Type "gpedit.msc" and press enter 3) In the left tree hierarchy, navigate to Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Security Options 4) Near the bottom, find "User Account Control: Behavior...

Ok I got one of these, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118003 Let's see how well it does.

Take off the heat spreader? Oh heck no, not me. Last time I tried that I ruined a S754 A64 2800+. Luckily that was only a $150 mistake :) Anyway, I'm off to Fry's to find a decent cooler ... the little red LED near the CPU on the Intel D975XBX2 motherboard was going crazy after enough Prime95...

Very nice! What voltage, etc.? Which HSF? Are we going to be having the QX6700 added to the overclocking database thread?

Yeah I'm not sure if the cooler I got is very good. I got this one: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16835103001 . I used arctic silver instead of what came with it. I figured I'd rather get the OEM and save $500, rather than pay $500 for a Intel stock HSF and a sweet "Intel...