April 6, 20179 yr Can't find much of anything on this board: http://b2b.gigabyte.com/Server-Motherboard/GA-7PESH4-rev-10#ov
April 6, 20179 yr It's an older board with a very limited CPU list as well the coolers are very specific because of how close the sockets are and their size. What kind of info are you looking for?
April 6, 20179 yr Author I'm not looking for anything specific on that board. I'm just trying to find a motherboard that won't break the bank that could house two Xeon E5 chips and works well with hardware pass through.
April 6, 20179 yr Awhile back I was shopping around for the same, I came to the conclusion that the cheapest dual Xeon board I could find, and I am in Canada, was around $399 for an Asrock board, anything else was more money, and this was brand new for just the board, no RAM no CPU's. Another way of looking at it is to shop around on eBay for a cheap pair of Xeon's then find a board that they can run on. I am running an older Intel socket 1366 board that came with quad core xeons and I was fortunate enough to find a pair of hex core xeons I could upgrade to for $100.00 but newer socket 2011 board will run on less power and produce less heat and in some cases offer more upgrade paths, the downside is they cost a little more.
April 7, 20179 yr Author Natex seems to have decent deals on their motherboard/CPU combos. You can get a refurbished Intel S2600CP2J Motherboard & two Xeon E5-2650 SR0KQ for $279. It's $345 for the dual 2670.
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