What was wrong with your PC-DL?
I actually just came on here to post about resurrecting mine. It was having a BIOS error last time I tried to use it. It's a cool board though.

Sneakpeak:

If you're going to junk the board *please* pull the BIOS chip! I would be exceedingly happy to get my hands on a good one. 😀

I don't know for sure. No bios beeps and my post card stops of odd codes. Sometimes it even pulled FF code but no post.
Sometime FE but for the most time it would stop of reserve codes. I think the NB is bad. it was missing a heatsink mount and was not on right. I'm going to be returning it.
I bought it on ebay and it was listed as being 100% working and I never be able to get a reply from the seller.
If they don't reply by Friday night ebay will step in and I may be able to keep the board. If I get to keep it I'll get with you on the bios chip.

Jade Falcon wrote:

The 3.6ghz xeon's and ncch-dl have shiped. I'll get the CPUs this weekend and hopefully the mobo too.

I been without a PC since I started this build. So yeah, I'd like to have it done.

What kind of 3.6 Ghz Xeon are you getting? There are both Nocona based Xeons (1 MB L2) or Irwindale Xeon (2 MB L2), your motherboard seems to support both Xeon types. If you are getting an Irwindale, check if you are getting a regular Xeon or an "E" model which the difference is the E model lacks hypertreading so if you use 2 Xeons, you'll get 2 Cores and 2 threads instead of 2 Cores and 4 Threads with the regular Xeons. Also some Irwindales needs the newest BIOS. There are also 3.8 Ghz Irwindales, but i'm not sure if it will work on that mobo or not

If i am sure. Nocona Xeons are just Pentium 4 5x1 series on a Socket 604 instead of LGA 775 and dual CPU support when Irwindale Xeons are Pentium 4 6x0 series on a Socket 604 instead of LGA 775 and dual CPU support. Both Xeons supports x64

In a clock per clock basis, both Nocona and Irwindale have worse clock per clock performance than Gallatin or even Prestonia (both Northwood derivates) due to their longer pipelines (31 stage pipeline vs 20 on the older Xeons). The only exceptions are applications which usually favores large caches (not really much if you compare with a Gallatin with a large L3) or Prescott based CPUs.

Edit: I just saw you got 3.8 GHz ones

I do not have 3.8ghz xeons nor will I be.
I got 2 SL7ZC for like 3$ on ebay. I also have 2 SL7AE.

I'll believe the SL7ZC will do better do to the higher FSB and clock speed. I'll find out.
I'll probably stick with the SL7ZC do the lower cost, if one died I can replace it much easier.

EDIT:
looking at benchmarks the Irwindale at 3.6ghz is abit faster then the Gallatin at 3.2ghz.

Motherboard is in. It works but needs a little tlc. Will start putting it all back together soon.

Nice, looks like a beast. Looking forward to seeing some benchmarks. My PC-DL build turned into a massive case resto. I'll make a thread when I get some time today. 😉

Well this sucks. the heat sink mounts I have will not work with the ncch-dl as it hits the leads on the VRM's. I cant mount the heatsink to the case as the cpu's don't line up with the holes in the case.

that just gives me more work....
I'll probably just drill holes in the case or cut the back plate mounts. maybe both 😀

Well that's fricking 2 for 2. The cnnh-dl is junk too.
It kind of works. It will try to post but crash in the bios... I need to stop buying cheap boards from e waist sites...

Well I bought a Asus NCT-D and this one better work.

I'll have to get new ram and a pci- gpu.
I'll list the 6800 ultra on eBay and the ram too. If they don't sell I. A week there get trashed.

Parts list a 3rd time.

This is getting old.

That sucks getting bad parts!
I got 3 different socket M boards from the same seller and no one works more than 30-60 seconds before rebooting. I suppose the sellers just plug them in for some seconds to see if they just get a picture and thinks they are ok. I tried different PSUs, CPUs and ram with no luck 😵

Scraphoarder wrote:

That sucks getting bad parts!
I got 3 different socket M boards from the same seller and no one works more than 30-60 seconds before rebooting. I suppose the sellers just plug them in for some seconds to see if they just get a picture and thinks they are ok. I tried different PSUs, CPUs and ram with no luck 😵

That's basically what my board is doing.

Got the new mobo today and oldy a previous owner hot glued the front panel and usb headers cables in place at one point. That's about odd.

Ugh, I HATE hot-glue (or "hot snot" as EEVBlog guy calls it) cable fastening. Huge pet peeve of mine. I've seen that tons of times from "professional" PC builder shops - drives me mad.

Not as much as I hate sticky duct-tape residue though.

Getting there.
I'm now using stock heatsinks. They looked like they would do better and there u3 and not u2 thay have better mounting and surface too. Fans are ok, but I may make a custom mount for 80mm fans.

when I set out to build this system I did not think It would take anywhere this long. it's been about a month since I decided to build it.
Nor did I think I would end up with such a powerful system.

I should get the ram and 7800gtx today.

Well that's just grate! A part I bought is bad. I don't know what yet.

I get a post beep of one long two short and a post code of 31.
Could be the gpu or the ram. I bought different ram and a second gpu to test the system.

Finley I got the system up and going. Runs uber hot! That netBurst for you. But the hardware can handle it. Even the ram gets hot. Big difference from the piii and over systems I been working with for the last few years.

posting from the dual 604 system!

Aside from a little cable management, the hardware end is done... Until I find a set of thermalrigh or nocta heatsinks for it.

I assume you figured out the post code error?