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(More customer reviews)This is a high quality board, however there are two significant issues to be aware of:
1 - The processor sockets are not in a straight line, but are closer together and offset. This will cause problems fitting certain large processor heatsinks, as the corners will overlap.
2 - The chipset heatsink is far too small, and will result in overheating (90C or more even in a well ventilated case). This can be resolved by fixing a low profile 50mm fan to the heatsink, but beware - this will obstruct one or more of the expansion slots. For this reason, you can't swap the supplied heatsink for a larger heatsink either, as that would obstruct the graphics card slot.
Chipset overheating WILL cause problems, in that once overheated the system will not boot, but will just hang when the BIOS gets to 'Checking NVRAM..'. This results in the system booting perfectly the first time, but subsequent reboots will fail, until the system is switched off and the chipset cools.
Fixing a fan to the heatsink resolved this, and reduced the chipset temperature from over 90C to around 45C.
Note that this board is primarily designed for stability/reliability and is NOT suitable for overclocking of any kind.
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Xeon Motherboard; Dual Intel5500 series XeonQuad/Dual-Core, with QPI up to 6.4 GT/s; Intel5500 (Tylersburg) Chipset; Up to 24GB DDR3 1333/ 1066/ 800MHz ECC Registered DIMM / 12GB Unbuffered DIMM; Dual Intel82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller; 6x SATA2 (3 Gbps) Ports via ICH10R Controller; 1 (x16) PCI-E 2.0, 1 (x4) PCI-E 2.0 (in x16 slot), 2x PCI 33MHz slots; Realtek ALC883 7.1 HD Audio
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