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New case! NZXT S340

Ran the whole Cinebench benchmarks on it today. . GPU is an old 9600 GT with a bit of an overclock.

They're apparently genuine Intel 1366 coolers. Originally from where I have no idea. I just found them on eBay when searching for 1366 coolers. I'm pretty sure this was the listing; http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/172085427694 Had to remove the backplates that go with the Supermicro coolers, and then mount the CPU hold down bracket straight to the board instead. And then the holes in the board where the threaded standoffs came through from the Supermicro backplates are the same spacing as the mounting pins on those coolers. But they're only JUST fitting. . they touch each other and it's pretty hard to get all 8 of the mounts to lock down. Definitely not ideal.

Thank you!

What model are those CPU coolers? I've got a dual Xeon Supermicro board as well. . X8DTL-iF. Running dual X5560s the stock Intel coolers are having a hard time keeping a lid on CPU temps at 100% load. . But the socket spacing on this board seems really tight and I'm not sure what other options there are that will cool better and still fit side-by-side. The original supermicro coolers fit, but they're designed for the server case with ducted air across them. . Even the Intel ones that are on it now I had to Dremel the sides that meet and the fins are touching each other.

Just thought I'd post a quick update with it all up and running on the X5560 CPUs.

Hi guys. New user here. . been a lurker for a while but figured I'd join in the fun. Partly inspired by the dual Xeon budget gaming build, I started looking around for second-hand stuff here in Australia. Stumbled upon a Supermicro X8DTL-iF dual Xeon motherboard for reasonable money (reasonable in Australian terms anyway) so I grabbed it. It came loaded with 2 x E5606 (4 core/4 thread 2.13GHz) CPUs and 16Gb of DDR3 ECC RAM. Luckily the Supermicro boards in this series are ATX, so there wasn't too much drama mounting it up in a case. First job was to remove the passive Supermicro coolers (designed for a server case with ducting) and fit a pair of Intel coolers with fans. Unfortunately the socket spacing on the board is a bit tight for the Intel coolers so they needed some attention with the Dremel to get them to fit side-by-side and clear the RAM in the first slot. I found a pair of X5560 CPUs for cheap, so I've ordered those and waiting to swap them out. This config runs on average 494 in Cinebench R15 on WIndows 10. Should pick up considerably once the X5560s go in. I put an ancient Geforce 9600 GT and a ASUS Xonar DG sound card from the boxes of random junk department (no onboard sound and VERY limited onboard video on these server-style boards) and used it as a workstation for a while; but it will be destined to become my ESXi whitebox for testing and development. Anyway here's some pics of the odd bunch of worn out left overs! :-)