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Awesome price for a well built mobo of yesterday. Good value for a fun build to learn on w/ quality build. This is one of Intel’s powerhouse of chipsets, the i5500 “Tylersberg” on ICH10R Intel AHCI/RAID 0/1/5/10. It takes most of the, up to 95w LGA1366 Xeon 56xx/55xx & Intel Core 1st gen (single CPU only). Dual high end cooling options are limited due to tight socket spacing but I used Noctua NH-D9DX i4 3U. The Noctua NH-U9DX i4 good as well. Limited to a tight 95x95mm foot print. Limited USB (3, +2 headers). After your GPU we’re left w/ only “2” PCIe so make them count, + 1 legacy PCI. I chose to go PCIe to USB3.1+ THunderbolt & PCIe Intel WiFi6+BT5.1 Just add USB3 hub & now on USB3 M-Audio. it has the dedicated MIO audio but expensive & dated. What’s more is it’s true ATX so it plays nicely in many cases. It can run lots of types of RAM including NON ECC low timing RAM. Pick your RAM in sets of 2,4,6 if dual CPU. Can run as single CPU & 1,2,3 stick. I only wish I sprung for the non ”C” version w/ AUSU Pike 8ch SAS+SATA RAID. You can add an old PCIe SAS card & bring life of SATA-3.0, 6gb/s HDD as they run great on these. I’m not a gamer but I can’t tell if I’ve maxed out the PCIe lanes on a RTX-2060 Ti 6g 3.0 on the 2.0 slot. Plays nice for it ageRead full review
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Dual-socket systems used to be the way to go for the ultimate in performance. I can remember lusting after a dual-processor Power Mac G5 as a teenager, for example, and now, finally, I've gotten my hands on a dual-processor system of my own, centered around the Asus Z8NA-D6C motherboard. This is an old server board for Intel's Tylersburg system architecture, featuring the excellent 5500 chipset and the LGA1366 socket. LGA1366 is neat because it was the first socket Intel introduced that supported six-core processors. That means that, in 2018, you can build your very own 12-core computer system for a fraction of the price of Ryzen or Coffee Lake, with an appreciable fraction of the performance for most tasks. I spec'ed my 'D6C build with two X5650 processors, 24 GB of DDR3-1333 ECC RDIMMs, and my old GTX 660 Ti graphics card, all of which I bought on eBay. You can drop this board into pretty much any case on the market, and it fits eminently well in my NZXT H440 gaming case. The 'D6C is an excellent board though not without drawbacks. The biggest drawback is that you will need Xeon-specific coolers for the processors, since the backplate is different to that on consumer boards like Asus's own P6T Deluxe series. You can find stock Xeon coolers here on eBay and any cooler for Socket B (LGA 1366) that uses M3 screws of sufficient length should work. I'm a fan of closed-loop liquid coolers and I use two Corsair H50 coolers, one on each socket. (The Asetek LC550 is equivalent, and you can find those pretty readily here as well.) Supposedly, the tower coolers that Intel sold with their i7-980X processors will also work, but I haven't acquired one of these to test with. Another drawback is that the 'D6C only supports 95W processors. This is a bummer because the best Socket B processor, the X5690, is a 130W chip. That means you're stuck with the X5675, although at 3.06 GHz across six cores, that processor is no slouch. My X5650s are more than enough processor for my needs (Hyper-V, 3Delight rendering, Photoshop, occasional gaming, Windows/Linux software development) although I do wish you could overclock the memory bus and run DDR3-1600 memory. As this board is a server board, you can forget about overclocking, so if that matters to you (and I hear that, on liquid, Westmere Xeons are excellent overclocking candidates), stick to the consumer boards or look for the (very rare, and very pricey) EVGA SR-2 Classified board for Socket B. If you go down this road, you'll want a power supply that can keep up. Asus recommends at least 450 W with 18A on the 12V rail. With my three hard drives and my high-wattage video card, I run an 850W power supply in my own rig. I've always used Corsair power supplies and I recommend them without hesitation. You will also want to spend some time with the official documentation if you've never built a dual-socket system before; I can't link it here, but search for "Asus Z8NA-D6C" with your favorite search engine and you should find it. As far as OS compatibility goes, I've only tested with Windows 10 and Slackware 14.2, though I see no reason why the 'D6C wouldn't work well with Windows 8.1, Windows 7, FreeBSD, or any other modern operating system for a standard PC.Read full review
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I was working on a new desktop build but had so much issues with "compatible" hardware not working so I decided to go a different route. Bought this setup, switch out my processors, plug and go. Worked first time and continues to run perfectly. I was about to scrap this project.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Bios was corrupted on arrival and the built in tools for reflashing did not work, had to reflash the ROM chip outside of the computer. Afterwards it functions as expected, no further issues. Bit of a pain starting out, but after overcoming that hurdle there haven't been any other issues.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
It is Asus, dual cpus, running fine, but it's OLD technology ...like 10+ years old ...
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
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