Havoc

The dates on the top of the CPU never match up with the release date of the product... Look at the top of a i7 4770k it will say '11 on it.
 
And with regards to BIOS - it's unlikely that you will find one which works with that CPU. BIOS compatibility on a particular platform is usually related to the processor Stepping. Due to the fact it is an Intel Confidential QSpec product, you will have no idea what stepping it actually is, and it is unlikely that there will be a BIOS publicly available that is compatible.
 
When Dell say "any Westmere" they mean publicly available Westmere. 
 
Sorry to be a buzz kill.  :unsure:

Fair play... Surprised it even turns on an LED... A0 stepping.
 
Good find.

Do you think I would be that naive?
 

 

 
For a board to support Westmere it simply needs to support the core structure. IE - the amount of cores. The only reason, for example, you needed to update your bios on X58 was to basically increase the core support count. You could run the 980x without it, but you would only see four cores.
 
When Dell say that their boards support any Westmere product they mean the X58 Express chipset.
 
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?pid=2823778
 
Clock speed, multi and FSB are completely irrelevant. If the board supports a 980x then it will support any Westmere hex core because they're all identical.
 
Edit. As for the date? the Xeon hex core was not released until 2010. This means Intel were playing with it two years prior. If you run the sample ID through Google you will find information about an I9.

That is an internal to Male. You need and internal to female... like this one.
 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Startech-Female-Motherboard-4-Pin-Header/dp/B000IV6S9S/ref=pd_sim_computers_3
 
And yes it should work fine so long as the signal is okay and can go through the case. 

That is an internal to Male. You need and internal to female... like this one.
 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Startech-Female-Motherboard-4-Pin-Header/dp/B000IV6S9S/ref=pd_sim_computers_3
 
And yes it should work fine so long as the signal is okay and can go through the case. 

Spill a fizzy drink on it then leave it overnight... There you go a sticky W key that should hold it's self down.

Spill a fizzy drink on it then leave it overnight... There you go a sticky W key that should hold it's self down.

True....
 
 
As long as you are reasonably conservative with your voltage increases then you should be okay. Also unless you are running unrealistic load Stress tests on your CPU, GPU and other components in your system all at the same time you should be fine.   

Put a rice grain sized blob in the middle, and screw down your heatsink, the pressure will spread it sufficiently. If your using socket 2011 you may want to add a little more than that.

Yes, anti-static work area not completely necessary, as long as you ground your self and don't do this.....
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuAMNqMuL7U
 
you should be fine.

Touch a radiator before touching any critical components and don't work in a room with carpet, then you should be just fine.

CPU's don't coil wine, it's something else in your system.

CPU's don't coil wine, it's something else in your system.

CPU's don't coil wine, it's something else in your system.

CPU's don't coil wine, it's something else in your system.

CPU's don't coil wine, it's something else in your system.

Hi, welcome to the forums!
 
I've moved your thread to the right subsection, they'll be able to help you better here. @megadarkwood's and @Havoc's suggestions are a good place to start, but here is a simple synopsis:
 
Bitcoin is a new form of currency called cryptocurrency. It's a distributed financial system, meaning that there is no central authority regulating the market value or any transaction done over the network. Bitcoins are "found" (created) through mining. Which, basically, is validating transactions that are done. Every transaction of Bitcoins needs to be confirmed a number of times before it is actually done. Transactions can be confirmed because of the blockchain, which is basically a list of every transaction ever made on the network. Because every transaction is logged, you're able to know with a high certainty that a given transaction is possible. The process of calculating this is done by miners and, in return they get bitcoins for doing so.
 
Interesting sites to look at are:
http://www.weusecoins.com/en/ , a site devoted to explaining bitcoins to people new to the concept https://blockchain.info/ , a site that shows information about the blockchain and about all transactions that are being done http://bitcoin.org/en/ , the website of the organisation that develops the bitcoin source code Hope this gets you started

Quote from "zedx" on tomshardware.co.uk  -  Seems to explain it pretty well.
 
"A normal CPU is made up of multiple cores which can process different functions at the same time. For example you can run a compiler on one core and an encoder on another. These cores are very complex and process these functions at a very fast rate. Applications that can do several functions or threads at the same time can benefit greatly from this. Also these processors can perform a single function at an extremely fast rate. There are 4 and 2 cores in modern CPU's
Now stream processors perform a single thread at a very slow rate, I can't find data on how slow but it should be around 1/10 th of the speed of the CPU in a normal GPU. Anyways in Larrabee it is 1/2 the speed of a core 2 at the same clock frequency. But
GPU's contain hundred of these very simple processors which can make overall computation very high. However, different functions cannot be performed in at the same time in these stream processors. The same function can run on a very large set of data in these thingies. For example you can't run a compiler and an encoder at the same time but you can encode a large number of files at the same time. Of course you can also encode two files in two separate cores in a desktop processors, but overall it will be much slower than in a GPU. This type of parallelism is called SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data). Think of things that can benefit by doing the same thing on different sets of data. For example we have 3d rendering. You can use the same function to render 1000 frames in different cores.
The raw computational power of modern GPU's is 20x, i.e they can process about 1 teraflop while CPU's max do 50 Gigaflops. But this doesn't mean that there would be a 20x improvement in all tasks. For example, Nvidia and AMD launched Avivo and Badaboom media encoders and these provided about 4x the speed of a CPU. With better drivers and and opencl we can expect a 10x improvemet in a lot of things like rendering and then there's larrabee too."
 
Source: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/262638-33-stream-processors-help

Quote from "zedx" on tomshardware.co.uk  -  Seems to explain it pretty well.
 
"A normal CPU is made up of multiple cores which can process different functions at the same time. For example you can run a compiler on one core and an encoder on another. These cores are very complex and process these functions at a very fast rate. Applications that can do several functions or threads at the same time can benefit greatly from this. Also these processors can perform a single function at an extremely fast rate. There are 4 and 2 cores in modern CPU's
Now stream processors perform a single thread at a very slow rate, I can't find data on how slow but it should be around 1/10 th of the speed of the CPU in a normal GPU. Anyways in Larrabee it is 1/2 the speed of a core 2 at the same clock frequency. But
GPU's contain hundred of these very simple processors which can make overall computation very high. However, different functions cannot be performed in at the same time in these stream processors. The same function can run on a very large set of data in these thingies. For example you can't run a compiler and an encoder at the same time but you can encode a large number of files at the same time. Of course you can also encode two files in two separate cores in a desktop processors, but overall it will be much slower than in a GPU. This type of parallelism is called SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data). Think of things that can benefit by doing the same thing on different sets of data. For example we have 3d rendering. You can use the same function to render 1000 frames in different cores.
The raw computational power of modern GPU's is 20x, i.e they can process about 1 teraflop while CPU's max do 50 Gigaflops. But this doesn't mean that there would be a 20x improvement in all tasks. For example, Nvidia and AMD launched Avivo and Badaboom media encoders and these provided about 4x the speed of a CPU. With better drivers and and opencl we can expect a 10x improvemet in a lot of things like rendering and then there's larrabee too."
 
Source: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/262638-33-stream-processors-help

You probably should have put it here > Folding@home, "Boinc and Coin Mining" section.... Probably get a better / faster response.
 
In the meantime check out this thread: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/10886-introduction-to-bitcoins/
 
and questions here potentially: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/11026-bitcoin-q-a-ask-me-anything/

All depends on personal preference. See below link with explanation f how the switches work and decide for your self.
 
http://www.keyboardco.com/blog/index.php/2012/12/an-introduction-to-cherry-mx-mechanical-switches/

Yep, I use MX4, we use MX4 on our servers as well. None conductive and reasonably well priced.

Games do necessarily use all of the RAM, all depends on game and resolution.

DVI

Dont think you need to look that far back... 1st gen i7's going cheap on ebay, and when OC'ed they still can pull there weight.