I really really doubt the cpu you have choosen will work in that motherboard, even though its 1366. These are the ones for that motherboard:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...ame=LGA%201366

6 monitors from one motherboard? I forsee problems, but I could be wrong.

I would still take the single cpu tyan with 32G of ddr2 over what you have picked.

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S5377 G2NR Custom Single Intel 5100 - - 1 32GB ^ RDDR2 - XGI Volari (2) GbE (4) SATA-II M3295-2 Yes
? 1333 2-ch. 667/533 Z9s M3296 (6/6)


Someone with similar system to what you picked:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/26...rkstation-2500

I would call Tyan and the Bios maker to make 100percent sure I7 will work in that board. No one is advertizing a duel i7 systme.


Wouldn't spend that much.

I just built a dual xeon 5520 workstation, and it renders 10% slower than my i7 920 rig(OC'ed to 3.8ghz).

The problem is, I can't overclock the dual rig. If that was possible, I'd be in heaven. For the money I spent on the dual rig ($2300), I could have built 2 more i7 rigs and been in better shape.

My advice would be to build or buy an i7 rig and overclock the living crap out of it. Much more bang for the buck

I will say they have good prices. I just priced out my rig I built using their site-- -dual 5520, 12gb ram -- and it cam out to around the same price I spent. .
i7 can't be dual, only xeons can do that. When the 5500 series (based on i7) Xeons came out, I was licking my chops, because I was dreaming of a dual i7 overclocked rig. Dumb me forgot to check if OC options are available on server boards. They are not.
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