Asus PC-DL Deluxe Xeon Board

[Gleep52]

Does anyone here own one or know someone who does? Has anyong had any luck with the overclocking and if so - how good/bad were the results?

I'm looking/hoping to get me one of these boards soon - can't wait! :D

Here is a link for all those who are interested...
http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=PC-DL%20Deluxe&langs=09
Pics of it at:
http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage.asp?image=13-131-055-04.JPG/13-131-055-03.JPG/13-131-055-07.JPG/13-131-055-05.JPG/13-131-055-06.JPG/13-131-055-02.JPG

[davidw]

All I know is that that is a sharp looking board.

[Xaotic]

Here's almost 40 pages of reading material. Looks like it has it's ups and downs.

http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40755

My main gripe is that it doesn't have PCI-X or even 66Mhz/64bit slots. You're paying for workstation level processors and components and getting PC levels of IO saturation points on the PCI bus and the inabiity to use some of the higher level cards to their full potential.

[Gleep52]

My main draw back to this card initially was due to the lack of PCI-X or PCI-64bit - but in all honesty - I don't think I'll ever use them for my gaming PC and 3D Modeling/video editing machine. Most PCI cards have issues with PCI-X/64 slots anyway - so after thinking about it - I was happy that it only had 32 bit slots. Maybe my Audigy 2 will work in every slot with a second PCI video adapter... hmmm... :D

But that's a very valid point if someone where looking for a fast chipset with PCI-X this is not the board.

I think (not positive) but am pretty sure the reason they did not include anything but standard PCI slots is due to the Async Memory FSB - since you can overclock this monster - PCI-X and PCI-64 bit are set Mhz and are on a sync'd clock... But I wonder what they plan to do with that in the future?

[NDC]

Of course 64bit PCI slots are grea tto have, but the advantage will be very limited as far as your eyes would ever see.

64bit PCI devices are usually Mass Storage Device controllers and the difference between running the controller at 32bit vs. 64bit will only be noticeable on benchmarks... When I used to run my SCSI 10K U160 drive on a 29160 controller, I couldn't tell the difference to be honest with you and I DO use high I/O applications...

As for PCI-X, I really couldn't say since I haven't had the time to really site down and use one for a period of time. I believe Stan's Supermicro motherboard has PCI-X slots and he's running a SCSI controller on it and you may want to ask him. However, I could almost bet the performance increase is something that will only significantly effected on benchmarks, not in the real world..