Quote Originally Posted by Movieman View Post
I think your going to find that the dual 5520 chipset SM board will present it's own issues with latency but I wish you luck with this.
Perhaps, although Tilt and Intel have shown encouraging SSD perf results with dual 5520 boards.

Quote Originally Posted by Movieman View Post
I have this sitting in my living room but damned if I can get it to post with any chips I've tried inc the earliest X5570's( Bios text says it was tested with those chips at the beginning) to X5670's..
Board lights up,fans spin but nothing else..
http://www.supermicro.com/products/s...7046GT-TRF.cfm
Sounds annoying. Some SM boards have a reputation for being picky about RAM -- I imagine you've tried different sticks already....

Does the board have IPMI? If so, have you tried to force a power-on reset that way? I know of at least one SM board where that worked when the normal POST sequence failed.