His are the dual socket, dual QPI Gulftowns ("Westmere EP", probably gonna end up the Xeon 56xx series) so he would be using a dual socket LGA1366 mobo designed around the Tylersburg (Intel 5500/5520) chipset.
Just a BIOS code updated will do ...
As I know, even X58D need to update to make it bootable ...
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