First post, by Hamby
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This hardware isn't all that old (I think one MB is 8 years old, however... that's technically old, isn't it?) but I could use some advice.
At about the same price, I can get an Asus Z8NA-D6C dual xeon motherboard
or a Supermicro X8DTN+ dual xeon motherboard.
both come with 5620 CPUs & heatsinks.
I wish to use the system for 3D rendering and video editing.
Which is the better motherboard for my purposes? I lean toward the ASUS, but I'm concerned about having a proper PCI-e slot for a modern GPU, since these motherboards I gather were designed for server work.
I think I read somewhere (maybe here?) of someone running win98 on a single cpu xeon system, so if I could somehow dual boot into that and Linux, it would be gravy, cause there are some old apps I'd like to keep using.