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  1. My passmark score for my dual 2670s is 19500. i had dual 2620 with a mark of 13500 on the same motherboard. I believe the 2650 will come in between 13500 and 19500. The turbo mode should kick in when a threshold load is reached. The passmark suite can't turn off or on turbo mode per se. Gary
  2. I haven't found anything close to the $170 for 128GB. For that price you can get 64GB. I ended up getting 64GB for $70, but it was 16x4GB. The 4GB sticks are the only good deals now-a-days. I got in too late on these deals (RAM and CPU). I thought about getting that kit. They also have one for $608. Same specs but the ram, i think, is slower. I just can't justify having another system (I built two new systems in the past two months).
  3. I had the same issue. Plugged the card in slot 3. Had to go to the bios and assigned vga output to cpu2. That worked for me.
  4. I'm done! I went on craigslist and bought an Intel Pedestal Server with dual Xenon e5-2620 with 500G HD, CD-ROM, 16G (8 x 2G) RAM, 550 Watt PS, and 8 hot swappable bays for $350. No OS installed. It's a P4000 chasis with a S2600co motherboard (P4308 to be exact on the chasis). I could not get the 500G in the hot swap rack recognized so I plugged into one of the white sata ports and was able to install win 7 pro (needed to copy the files to the HD first for some reason for it to install). How do I get the blue sata ports to work? I ran the passmark cpu test and got 13,500 marks for the dual e5-2620s. Not bad for 6-cores/12 threads. Slightly faster than my i7-4790k at 13,000 marks. I swapped the CPUs. I have one xenon that is from malay and the other from costa rica. Not exactly matching e5-2670.. Booted right up. Ran the benchmark and was rewarded with 19,500 marks (world avg is about 18,400). I spent a total of $516 on this very fast system and am stoked! I just added a cheap video card so I can run my 3d benchmark to completion and added a Samsung 250G SSD (parts I already have). Can anyone point me to cheap memory? I can't find 64G for $85 ($170 for 128G) anymore. You guys are luck to get the RAM at that price. I'm looking to go 128G.
  5. I just bought a pair of e5-2670 for $83 ea on ebay. I guess I'm late to the game as people were buying these for $65 just last year. Anyone have an opinion on the intel dual socket motherboards like the Intel S2600CO series? I just built up my i7-4790k and this dual xenon project is getting me excited :).