SkullTrail anyone???

[adamsleath]

im lovin the skulltrail build pics.
vicarious enjoyment/window shopping.

[Zytek_Fan]

Nice to see a lot of all solid caps on the Tyan board

[Cronos]

I will in about a week... lol, I have a lot of college applications to do ASAP, so I wont be building until i have time to mod the case for the radiator and get my order from petras

Don't forget to try BSEL-mod on your Xeons for 1600FSB - if the BIOS let this happen, you will get instant 3.4GHz OC. Then you can probably get 10-15% more with Systools or whatever windows utility can understand onboard PLL.
If you intend to use Linux, there is also a way for software OC.

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

Don't forget to try BSEL-mod on your Xeons for 1600FSB - if the BIOS let this happen, you will get instant 3.4GHz OC. Then you can probably get 10-15% more with Systools or whatever windows utility can understand onboard PLL.
If you intend to use Linux, there is also a way for software OC.

Got a link for the BSEL on the 771? I would gladly get a hard oc like that.

[Cronos]

Got a link for the BSEL on the 771? I would gladly get a hard oc like that.

http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?t=77937

By the way, once you make a software OC, you can reboot and have "true hardware OC" - the new fsb setting will be preserved. At least, thats how most Tyan boards behave.

Actually, software OC and BIOS OC does the same thing -set PLL registers. Windows calibrate some variables at the start, basing on detected speed, and, then you do software OC, this variables should be re-calibrated again. The best way is just restart.

Under Linux, there is even easier way -fast kernel reboot using kexec mechanism.

[[XC]Atomicpineapple]

Interesting, I have the older i5000X version of that Tyan board. I'll be interested to see how the new 1 OCs.

[Torphoto]

Waiting very impatiently for test results..................................

edit, No one has asked this as yet but one thing you could do ( if you can ) if give us a tour of all the connectors etc on the board if you can, won't involve any tests

[mrcape]

Any test results yet?

[Crazypinoy9]

Any test results yet?

LOL! That's a good question that deserves an answer so here goes!

Got my FB-Dimms in yesterday, popped them in, powered on....guess what? No boot!

Brought everything into my test benches at work and tested every component and what'd ya know....the board is DOA! Intel is sending me a new board so everything is postponed.

The funny thing is that I called up a buddy who got the setup too and guess what...his board came dead also. LOL!

[Movieman]

LOL! That's a good question that deserves an answer so here goes!

Got my FB-Dimms in yesterday, popped them in, powered on....guess what? No boot!

Brought everything into my test benches at work and tested every component and what'd ya know....the board is DOA! Intel is sending me a new board so everything is postponed.

The funny thing is that I called up a buddy who got the setup too and guess what...his board came dead also. LOL!

We'll wait patiently...Ok, some of us will.
This is worth waiting for!

[mrcape]

Good luck on the next one, looking forward to it.

[GRAFiZ]

LOL! That's a good question that deserves an answer so here goes!

Got my FB-Dimms in yesterday, popped them in, powered on....guess what? No boot!

Brought everything into my test benches at work and tested every component and what'd ya know....the board is DOA! Intel is sending me a new board so everything is postponed.

The funny thing is that I called up a buddy who got the setup too and guess what...his board came dead also. LOL!

They're still "prototype" boards right?

I know from my "sources" they're pretty far along in this project, but not quite there yet.

I just know they've done a lot to try and tweak this chipset and it wouldn't surprise me if the first few runs are nothing but trouble... for anyone wanting to go octa core, you still can't beat the stability of the 5000 chipset.

[DShankar]

I was just about to buy the Seaburg-based TYAN S5397 dual LGA771. What's the difference between that and this Skulltrail motherboard?

[disruptfam]

M A X I M U M orgasm lmfao

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

I was just about to buy the Seaburg-based TYAN S5397 dual LGA771. What's the difference between that and this Skulltrail motherboard?

4 pci-e and nvidia chipsets for graphics. Ive got an i5400 xt, ill let you know how it works out

[Blauhung]

I was just about to buy the Seaburg-based TYAN S5397 dual LGA771. What's the difference between that and this Skulltrail motherboard?

Your TYAN board is most likely tuned in the BIOS for extreme stability. The Skull Trail BIOS is specifically setup for overclocking, tweaking, and it has been tuned for performance at the cost of the extreme stability that most DP server chipsets make their name upon. I would venture a guess that the CPU/memory/chipset power regulation is also of a bit higher quality to support the extra voltage that will be thrown at it.

[DShankar]

Your TYAN board is most likely tuned in the BIOS for extreme stability. The Skull Trail BIOS is specifically setup for overclocking, tweaking, and it has been tuned for performance at the cost of the extreme stability that most DP server chipsets make their name upon. I would venture a guess that the CPU/memory/chipset power regulation is also of a bit higher quality to support the extra voltage that will be thrown at it.

Thanks. I guess OP is gonna have some fun with nice OC'ing while I sit in the corner with my TYAN...

[DShankar]

4 pci-e and nvidia chipsets for graphics. Ive got an i5400 xt, ill let you know how it works out

Sorry didn't see your post. Which motherboard do you have? S5397/S5396/S5396W/S5392? . I'm thinking about the S5396 (no SAS, don't need any) but I'm tempted to wait for the cheaper S5392.

[Cronos]

Your TYAN board is most likely tuned in the BIOS for extreme stability. The Skull Trail BIOS is specifically setup for overclocking, tweaking, and it has been tuned for performance at the cost of the extreme stability that most DP server chipsets make their name upon. I would venture a guess that the CPU/memory/chipset power regulation is also of a bit higher quality to support the extra voltage that will be thrown at it.

I already made notice about this -it's actually seems otherwise.Tyan's board has 6-phase VRM and Intel's has 5.

I would venture a guess overclocking options will be limited, as it is always with Intel. They even go as far as totally block even the possibility for software overclocking on their server 5000-based boards

[railer]

MB is DOA this suks. Anyway best of luck with new one.

[jabski]

We'll wait patiently...Ok, some of us will.
This is worth waiting for!

tick tock

[Blauhung]

I already made notice about this -it's actually seems otherwise.Tyan's board has 6-phase VRM and Intel's has 5.

I would venture a guess overclocking options will be limited, as it is always with Intel. They even go as high as totally block even the possibility for software overclocking on their server 5000-based boards

I was just guessing on the VRM, I guess we'll see how it does soon.

But Bad Axe 2 is one of the best overclocking boards for the 975x chipset and has more options then most of the rest of the flock.

Bone Trail is doing ok, but has a few wandering bugs left.

And this isn't a server class board. This board was specifically designed with overclocking a server chipset in mind. I have no clue on all the options, but expect to see a fully fleshed out BIOS full of options.

[DShankar]

I was just guessing on the VRM, I guess we'll see how it does soon.

But Bad Axe 2 is one of the best overclocking boards for the 975x chipset and has more options then most of the rest of the flock.

Bone Trail is doing ok, but has a few wandering bugs left.

And this isn't a server class board. This board was specifically designed with overclocking a server chipset in mind. I have no clue on all the options, but expect to see a fully fleshed out BIOS full of options.

Seeing that this is Intel demoed 5ghz+ overclocking on Skulltrail, I'm sure it has moderate to better overclocking options.

[AdmiralThrawn]

I'm planning to build a Skulltrail System too, but only with one CPU, my tower setup (including a big RAID-6 array) won't allow for the second CPU to be installed.

Could you please tell me, wich socket is the primary one? I hope it is the one closer to the rear of the case..

[STEvil]

why bother if you're only going to use a single cpu?