LGA 1366

CarsonAurum · January 22, 2016

I'm sure its a blast from the past for a lot of you to be hearing about someone wanting a 1366 motherboard, but I was casually marathoning some LTT build logs last week and I stumbled upon the Old Server Build Log and I decided, since I had some extra money lying around from Christmas, to give it a shot. I went on to ebay just in time to snipe a pair of LGA 1366 Intel Xeon E5620 processors, and now I'm sitting here looking around for the motherboard to pair with the Xeons. I thought about an EVGA Classified SR2, but no one seems to have one. I then stumbled upon this Foxconn board. But, I can't find any sort of paperwork or specs on it. So, I've gotten really frustrated going around in circles between overpriced consumer boards to old Dell boards that wouldn't do me any good to the Foxconn boards that are good, but have no information to go with them.

Here is what I need: An LGA 1366 motherboard that:

Would fit in a consumer case (EATX, ATX)
Has dual sockets (For both Xeons)
Preferably a good amount of SATA connections (3 or 6)
A good amount of USB ports.
More than one PCIe x16 Slot

Anything that anyone can find anything would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Carson.

Trey222 · January 22, 2016

There is this board but you will have to do some modding to get it to work. http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-HP-Z800-WorkStation-Dual-Socket-LGA1366-Motherboard-460838-002-576202-001-/231696510206?hash=item35f2302cfe:g:3soAAOSwbdpWXH7z

Here is a page describing the mods you will have to do. http://andybrown.me.uk/2014/11/01/z800/

Clear17Mud · January 22, 2016

There is this board but you will have to do some modding to get it to work. http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-HP-Z800-WorkStation-Dual-Socket-LGA1366-Motherboard-460838-002-576202-001-/231696510206?hash=item35f2302cfe:g:3soAAOSwbdpWXH7z

Here is a page describing the mods you will have to do. http://andybrown.me.uk/2014/11/01/z800/

Attempting to install my XFX 7970 graphics card caused the biggest headache. It started OK then as soon as the Windows 8 start screen appeared the monitor signal was lost and I had to power off the computer. Worse, it would not POST afterwards. Worse than worse, restoring the previous graphics card also would not POST. I honestly thought I’d fried the entire motherboard.

However, some minutes later it all started working again with the previous card. I’m guessing that the XFX card somehow triggered a resettable overcurrent or heat-related fuse and a few minutes later the fuse reset. I’m now using a cheap Nvidia 210 single-slot card because I don’t play games so a power-hungry hot-running gaming card would do nothing except block useful expansion slots.

so if your going with sli I'd be aware of this part of the post above

CarsonAurum · January 22, 2016

There is this board but you will have to do some modding to get it to work. http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-HP-Z800-WorkStation-Dual-Socket-LGA1366-Motherboard-460838-002-576202-001-/231696510206?hash=item35f2302cfe:g:3soAAOSwbdpWXH7z

Here is a page describing the mods you will have to do. http://andybrown.me.uk/2014/11/01/z800/

I'm not so sure I'd like to spend that much work modding something to work. Are there any other motherboards that would take a little bit less work to get operational?

DunePilot · January 24, 2016

I'm sure its a blast from the past for a lot of you to be hearing about someone wanting a 1366 motherboard, but I was casually marathoning some LTT build logs last week and I stumbled upon the Old Server Build Log and I decided, since I had some extra money lying around from Christmas, to give it a shot. I went on to ebay just in time to snipe a pair of LGA 1366 Intel Xeon E5620 processors, and now I'm sitting here looking around for the motherboard to pair with the Xeons. I thought about an EVGA Classified SR2, but no one seems to have one. I then stumbled upon this Foxconn board. But, I can't find any sort of paperwork or specs on it. So, I've gotten really frustrated going around in circles between overpriced consumer boards to old Dell boards that wouldn't do me any good to the Foxconn boards that are good, but have no information to go with them.

Here is what I need: An LGA 1366 motherboard that:

Would fit in a consumer case (EATX, ATX)

Has dual sockets (For both Xeons)

Preferably a good amount of SATA connections (3 or 6)

A good amount of USB ports.

More than one PCIe x16 Slot

Anything that anyone can find anything would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Carson.

The best bang for the buck is a single cpu 1366 and get any of the hexacore xeons and overclock them. Much faster single core performance being overclocked than having two that aren't. You can overclock with a SR-2 but they are impossible to find and for the money you would be better suited to buy a 5960X... yes the boards are that expensive that you could build a 5960X system for the same price. With a single cpu overclocked you can get Cinebench scores over 950 at 4.3GHz that will be scoring better than a 4790k at 4.7GHz. With the fastest chip available on the platform X5690s in a dual cpu system which can't be overclock you will be looking at 1600 Cinebench scores. Those chips are about $300+ each though. So... yeah if you want a good 1366 system, a standard board and pick up a X5650-X5675 something and OC it. That will give you by far the best performance to cost ratio.

CarsonAurum · January 24, 2016

The best bang for the buck is a single cpu 1366 and get any of the hexacore xeons and overclock them. Much faster single core performance being overclocked than having two that aren't. You can overclock with a SR-2 but they are impossible to find and for the money you would be better suited to buy a 5960X... yes the boards are that expensive that you could build a 5960X system for the same price. With a single cpu overclocked you can get Cinebench scores over 950 at 4.3GHz that will be scoring better than a 4790k at 4.7GHz. With the fastest chip available on the platform X5690s in a dual cpu system which can't be overclock you will be looking at 1600 Cinebench scores. Those chips are about $300+ each though. So... yeah if you want a good 1366 system, a standard board and pick up a X5650-X5675 something and OC it. That will give you by far the best performance to cost ratio.

Yeah I get that most single CPUs can outperform... But I got two E5 5620s already.. I was just gonna build some cheap system for them, and I kinda felt bad for spending money on two and only using one... Thus, I'm kinda thinking about getting this. What do you think about that board?