These days pretty busy with work. For work related reasons, I am building a new multi-core monster in the form of dual Intel Xeon E5-2650 Sandy Bridge based LGA2011 cpus. Each Intel Xeon E5-2650 has 8 physical cpu cores with Hyperthreading = 16 total cpu threads per cpu. So dual Intel Xeon E5-2650 will have a total 16 physical cpu cores and 32 cpu threads

Mostly, this server will be used in Linux/CentOS based testing. But with 8-16 memory dimm slot motherboard support and up...

Been a while since I had new gear to play with and had the time away from work to give the new gear some attention

• Intel Core i7 2600K L038A660
• Gigabyte P67A-UD7

First pairing will be with 256GB Crucial RealSSD C300 on Marvel SATA 6G port 6 and 2x2GB A-Data 2000X DDR3-2000Mhz 9-9-9-24 memory modules, pretty old kits from Elpida BBSE days.

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