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How much did that machine cost? didn't know that you could overclock a dual xeon that much very good result indeed..
I built it for about $6K aussie dollars including refundable 10% tax = about $5100 USD. (see below)
It is the only motherboard I know of that can overclock dual Xeons, AND have high graphics performance, AND can use cheaper non-ECC ram.
Working well so far, with one exception - crackly audio under heavy load, which I haven't fixed yet.
Only a few cases can fit it - it is huge. There are lots of things to research should you decide to build one - not for beginners. go to the EVGA forums and read a lot. But it is about half the price of an equivalent Dell. And faster.
Using an EVGA SR-2 motherboard - that is right - dual hexacore Xeons AND overclocking. (with HT = 24 threads)
Dual X5650 2.67GHz running at 4.00GHz on aircooling, 24GB RAM. - 22.5 seconds
Pretty sick setup That mobo is badass to say the least! 2 sockets and 12 Dimm Slots, yummy, is that a dual Lan too?
Oddly (or not) enough I have a single i7 980 X running @ 4.0 ghz and its time is almost exactly double of yours... and so was the price of your machine
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