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