Recent content by EvenOlder

Yeah, trust me when I say google lists NO reviews for real world performance of the 5100 chipset, let alone the 5400. Your advice regarding the RAM is something I should have (smacks head) thought of. And also thanks for eliminating SuperMicro from my consideration list, although you list a SM...

yes of course ghz, sorry. I agree with dan, when encoding we measure how many FPS the encoder can crunch, which macbook pros encoding with x264 at similar settings to mine only hit 140 FPS, and the data for 140 frames is a lot less than 60 MB. (Ie, only 140 frames worth of data would need to be...

So, having settled on 5300/667mhz memory- Any benefit to the 5400 chipset over the 5100 chipset if overclocking looks to be unlikely? Also, any opinions on spending the same $1600 on a 45nm desktop quad core instead? Figuring on a speed of 3.6mhz from the chip, would it be faster than the 8...

whoops, just looked up 800mhz DDR2 and FB-DIMMs, more than I'm going to spend, so it'll be 667(5300) stuff. The Xeons are 2.33MHz chips

Thanks for the reply DanthebanjoMan Of course, your past threads about the Asus board that's going to compete with skulltrail has me wondering if i should just wait a bit. I'm going to look up this "pinmod" you're talking about, but would I really see a difference between the two? (1333 vs 1600...

Hello all, I need advice regarding which Xeon board to use- 1. Tyan tempest based on the 5100 chipset or 2. Either the Asus or Supermicro 5400 chipset based boards I'm going to be using 2 Xeon 5410 chips, and 4 gigs of memory I'll either use the onboard graphics or a cheap nvidia 8600...