Quote Originally Posted by Movieman View Post
The only benchmar I've seen, the SAP, showed a dual Nehalem JUST a tad slower than a 24 core dunnington.
Really? Now that surprises the hell out of me.
Makes me wonder what app,memory and cpu's are in your Gainestown,
I have a SM X7DWA-N here with 2-X5470's and it is fast, running at 3600, but the benchmarks for the Gainestown should kill it.


Yea, but we don't know if SetFSB will work yet.
There are 2 PLL controllers on the board, or at least 2 ICS chips and one, the main one that is in SetFSB connects to the second.
According to what I've read the type of memory is all up to the board manufacturer.
As the first post here showed, that guy tried regular DDR3-2000 and it worked BUT at 1333 speed..
If I'd known that I wouldn't have bought ECC Registered mem..
performance will really depend on applications, the ones you are looking for yes all your x5470 benches will be crunched by the new gainestown you are building. looking at your price tag it looks to me like you have the x5570 or x5580 in your system, nice i only have the e5520 ones, enough for daily things, but no real wr performance crunching parts.