These guys used CAS3 FB-DIMM:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/processor/495/7/
Personally CAS5 800MHz FB-DIMM is uber expensive and hard to find in this part of the world and anything better and you're paying for 2x desktop Penryns anyway.
We can pre-order the QX9775 here for 1500 each at one or two places, so they say, availability +1month away. 5400 MB will cost +450 and FB-DIMM 2x1GB 800MHz 5-5-5-15 costs 310 (x2) = 620. My boss was after this setup as his workstation but MB+CPU+RAM non-existent here.
That's +4k without anything else.
Phenom 9600 BE costs 150
C2Q Q6600 costs 170
Decent RD790 costs 110
Decent P35 costs 130
Decent 4x1GB DDR2 800MHz 4-4-4-12 costs 120
150+110+120 = 380
170+130+120 = 420
Leaving GPU/PSU out of it, you can buy 10x Q6600 or 11x 9600 BE setups for less than that price alone here, which is far better and useful for anyone buying for real work around here than this zeppelin, especially as they can also be oc'd on cheap air cooling stable.
In a single config, a lot of power there though, no doubt. High benches possible as shown. Quite impressive how its moving along, imagine if they ever made a LGA771 Nehalem 8-core which this supported for 16-core action.
Nice score guys!
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