EXCLUSIVE! New EVGA Classified Dual-Proc Board - 270-GT-W555!

[Newblar]

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...

[Bolas]

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...

What versions of Windows 7? Home Premium 64-bit? Or would I need to get Pro or Ult to run dual socket? Presumably all versions, but I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to require ult to run dual socket.

[jcool]

What versions of Windows 7? Home Premium 64-bit? Or would I need to get Pro or Ult to run dual socket? Presumably all versions, but I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to require ult to run dual socket.

IIRC you need at least Pro. HP traditionally doesn't support more than one socket.

[acesea]

Will it support ECC ram as well as enable and process error correction?

Searching has been fruitless.