Quote Originally Posted by poke349 View Post
Confirmed, it's the mobo. I took the whole thing apart and did a ton of open air tests on the floor with a static mat.

This time, I don't think it died because of overheating. First of all, it was off. And secondly, the cooling I have on it is more than overkill (out of paranoia).

Tried all combinations of the two processors. (switched, ran each alone in each socket)... all the same result.
If either processor was dead, it wouldn't be seeing the same results for all combinations.

Tried different memory modules - same
Different power supply - same
No video card - same

I got it to work only once, but never again - even under the same settings. So it's going to RMA.

I've had it with this mobo. It was designed for the Clovertowns - never meant for the 150 watt, 1600 FSB Harpertowns...
I'll be ordering SuperMicro's version shortly before getting back from winter break:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-155-_-Product

(It's big, so I've made sure it fits in my case.)

It lacks a pcie x16, but I don't game on it anymore (my i7 rig is better for games). I'll just grab the best pcie x8 card I can find to get full resolution, Aero (Windows), and Emerald (Linux).

*God... I'll have two extra video cards sitting around... (GTX 9800+, GTS 250)
One of them will go into my future Sandy Bridge/Bulldozer rig, as well as the extra 1000W power supply I have sitting around.


I'll update the charts tomorrow. lol


I wonder what to do when I get the Tyan board back from RMA.
I might just get a couple of low-end 1333 FSB Harpertowns to fill it. But I can't really justify it because whatever I put in it will be outclassed by my current setup (2 x X5482 + 64GB).

It'll also won't be very useful for my code-development and tuning because it will be identical in architecture to my current setup. (and I want something different)
Interesting. I've never built any Xeon based systems, so I can't help ya. Interestingly enough though, we've had Tyan Intel boards die on us at work. So, I dunno. They've never been cost effective enough for me to build one.

You can always just the RMA'd board for a storage server or something.

*shrug*

Like I've said, I don't really like the Xeons. And the current generation ones are wayyy to expensive for me to build.