Quote Originally Posted by Bolas View Post
Only tough decision for me is the EVGA board or the Asus board. Leaning towards EVGA.

I'll be buying three of those four come April. Will need a lot of friendly advice from the folks at xtremesystems.org to make everything work properly though.... so please be kind, when I'm asking for help and advice, it's cause I need it, not cause I'm trying to say "look at all my cool hardware" or something stupid like that.

Will the EVGA board run Windows 7 if both sockets are occupied with Xeon chips, or would I have to buy some kind of Windows Server OS?

Well ok not three out of the four above, I would potentially be buying a pair of 32nm Gulftown Xeon cpus to go with the EVGA board, would only do the i7 980X if I went with the Asus board.
yeah it should work fine on windows 7

if i bought this mobo, id definitely buy or build a custom bench solution
the idea of an extreme expensive case is not all that appealing to me...