Before you get ahead of yourselves, i7 970 is Gulftown, not Westmere Westmere is the Xeon variant of Gulftown. To make matters worse I have a confirmation of the turbo multiplier working fine on a vanilla X58 board from EVGA. That's absolutely nuts that I cannot run turbo on this board yet vanilla X58 can do it fine.

PS: Good info nonetheless for those using Westmere chips. I forgot about that thread.