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Yea, link above "Tested Memory List" gives you part numbers, search for the part numbers. Use google's "shopping" page, order by price, avoid scammy looking places. I did exactly that for a X9-SCM, got Hynix ECC memory from Superbiiz who had the lowest price+shipping at the time, worked a treat. If you're really willing to trade time for trying to save bucks, search each part number you find at each store site - Amazon, Newegg, the various memory sellers, etc. - google's shopping page doesn't always get the current price or take into account specials/coupons. Possibly plug the motherboard model into the various memory vendor's configurator - crucial, kingston, etc, that will give their suggestion of compatible memory part numbers, go search *those* part numbers. But of course you're a step off the comfort of the "Tested Memory List" - there's lots of other memory that will work but it's a little more of a gamble...

fyi - this actually appears to still be live at this price. One review says the drive is a Seagate ST4000DM000.

One of the reviews said it was an ST4000DM000, same as in the SAMSUNG D3 Station 4TB (according to another review on Newegg, I don't personally have either).

Just be aware that looks like a VGA plug, fine if you have the adapter or a monitor that takes those. Cards with SVGA/DVI outputs are unfortunately a little bit pricier...

Same price at amazon now too...

Yeah I got a couple of drives packed like that from newegg, just a drive in the antistatic bag rolling around in a box not even half full of peanuts. Not too awful if you only have one drive, but with 2+ I cringed thinking of them smashing against one another. I got lucky I guess, they survived testing and burn-in and have been running for 4 years now. Haven't gotten one from them in a few years (partly due to that packaging), I got a few batches from Amazon and as stated above they came very well packed. 3 out of 12 failed testing and burnin though, but getting a free return label and getting replacements was a breeze.

Right, the V2 is an Ivy Bridge - the 1230 V2 is a 22nm process vs 32nm for the, uhh, non-V2. CPUMark is 8420 for the non-V2 so the V2 is just under 10% faster, on that scale at least. And the TDW is 69 watts vs 80 watts for the non-V2. (TDW/nm from ark.intel.com) So yeah, based on that + the use of 1600 ram (for whatever miniscule performance difference that makes, heh) I went for the V2. Well, that and the V2 was in the newegg combo at that time...

I just got this board in a combo with a Xeon E3-1230 V2 last month, the xeon looked like really good bang for the buck. CPUmark was 9165 on cpubench.net, that's within 5% of a I7-3770! Current price of the E3-1230 V2 at Microcenter is $219 in-store or $244 from newegg. The board newegg shipped had bios 2.01 iirc, I was glad to see it boot because otherwise apparently one has to get a non-Ivy 1155 cpu to boot it and upgrade the bios. For RAM I got Hynix HMT41GU7MFR8C-PB DDR3-1600 ECC from superbiiz, the X9SCM will support 1600 ram if the CPU is an Ivy Bridge type and this ram was on the compatibility list and only a couple bucks more than 1333 at the time. Newegg was out of the ought-to-be-compatible Kingston 8G sticks at the time, those *might* be a bit cheaper. So far so good, it's screaming fast