tsubasa hanekawa
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Jan 25, 2015
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- 170
i have a small deal lined up shortly with the advent of a deal made with a friend, the deal is basically he's looking to upgrade to a platform with PCI-E 3 since he's hit the limit of PCI-E 2 (he's a storage buff so we;re talking raid on enterprise grade SSD's and the like all going through a single raid card then a second raid card for the next set of drives and so on) the swap is an asus Z10PE-D16 WS swaps for an EVGA SR2 (with a pair of cpu blocks for good measure) and personally i think it's a good deal since that's £430 worth of board in swaps and SR2's go for about £1000+ on ebay and are rare as rocking horse crap, with all this im thinking it best to go that way rather than track one down, but there's a sweetener on this, if i can sort him even some cheap ES xeons for it (i know it's flaky territory) then i get his 4.7GHz (at decent volts) capable X5680's in with it too, but, im in need of a definitive answer as to weather or not this board will indeed support ES xeons or not, if anyone has any leads ill be very grateful and many thanks in advance for any responses.