Okay so maybe not totally on the level of today's 64 core server chips... but LGA 1366 can still be pretty cool if you have the parts laying around.
So I got some stuff laying around..
Xeon x5670 pair
Xeon x5650 pair
couple lga1366 supermicro motherboards
handful of r9 290x video cards and a buncha cords n extra shit I'd need.
>The issue< I'm running into tho is I got these huge overkill 4-copper pipe cpu fans that I "know" are gona keep these cpus cool as a cucumber, but the problem I'm running into is that supermicro has next to zero options for any sort of overclocking in the bios menu. So while its great to be 52 under full load, I'm losing alot of max potential.
Is there some way to get around this? Cuz I know these x5670's can be pushed quite a bit on air, so I feel kinda silly building a system with them without overclocking them since they can get quite a large boost, 25-30% isn't unheard of.
For those who say "why not just get some other single socket motherboard that has the OC options" my response to that is that I need multiple high clock cores in order to run a particular program that lets me run more instances of itself based upon your core count, while still requiring a decent core speed, so a 1.4ghz with twice as many cores wouldn't work as well as the 3.0-4.0ghz with 12core/24 thread.
I mean yeah I could prob spend a couple grand and buy a ryzen setup n call it a day, but I already got this shit so I'd like to try and make it work since these are the same cpus mac pro towers used to use in their workstations, pretty sure dell/hp made workstations with these cpus too.