OC'ing seems limited but at 533 FSB and Xeons, I'm interested!
At about $200 (USD) and the Xeons at $236 each, might be a good deal. Several other features make it even more attractive.
Will this board handle the 2.0GHz/400Hz FSB Xenons that are ~$120 each. Much mor attractive at <$450 for MB+2CPUs. Where in the Xenon line of CPUs does the Hyperthreading kick in?
it's already old (?) in the Asus line
but it'll take the 'latest' (says 3.06 @ 533) on the web site
when you are ordering cpus, make sure you check your xeons as to whether they are vanilla Xeons or Xeon MP's
there is a 603 and a 604 pin chip
one is the plain dual xeon and one is the xeon MP multi (more than 2 way, ie 8-way [drool])
I'd expect if it will take a 533, it will take a 400.
some of the pages are hard, intel web site is not up to date.
and the tyan site that used to say the 2466n board took pc2100 ram now only mentions pc2700 ram (??)
don't expect great leaps forward in the wu/day on seti
my 2.4@533 does 6.8wu
my 2.4@800 does 10.30wu
my dual xeon when i last tested it, using 2 (logical) cpus was the same as the P4, 2 @ 4.1hrs = just under 12 / day (11.84)
using three, the hours went up, the wus was about 14-15 / day
using four, the hours just went up more, and the wus / day was the same, topped out around 15 / day. lot of money for not much.....
[ it happily runs 2 sah with a boinc too. go figure ]
If you want to buy it, make sure you'll get the 1.05 revision. Because the others don't have the AGP/PCI look which asus promised. In a few weeks the PCH-DL will come out, which has 2 PCI 64BIT slots.
New bios 1004 will come out in afew days, which gives the AGP lock to older revisions. See the 2CPU forums for the biggest thread about a mobo in the history of the internet.