Hey guys,



I will be getting the i7 975 processor extreme edition at a pretty decent price.Please suggest a suitable mobo. Right now, I am considering the evga X58 mobo, but I have very little knowledge in hardware.



My rig will ONLY be used for computational work, absolutely no gaming or overclocking, so haven't thought of a GPU.



The sketchy details of my soon to be rig are:



CPU: i7 975

Mobo: Need suggestions. Inclined to evga x58 sli

RAM: 2133MHz OCZ blade rams 6gb

HDD: 160 gb Intel SSD. (It is enough for my work)

PSU: VX550 (Will it be enough?)

Cooling: None as it will be in an AC environment 24x7

OS: linux (fedora).Computational work on 'Gaussian 09'

Price: No restriction. Will be paid by my university.



The above was suggested to me by a friend.]

Out of the above, processor and RAMs are confirmed. Existing PSU (Vx550) will be used.

Please suggest a mobo so that those sweet 2133MHz rams will work to their full potential.



Thanks in advance.

Guess the purchase officer of your varsity loves glamour

i am sure intel would be more than happy to oblige with high end server config for such a big customer

i would google to see if two extreme editions can be put in one board ??



Dual Intel I7? - AnandTech Forums

so i googled and came up with this

looking at their computational loads i would call them your "brother-in-computation"



Mods why is the link not working?

ok here's the link

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=228832