Hello all, I am back asking the help of your wonderfull community as I just had one of my processors fail and am looking at upgrading rather than simply replacing.

 

I was running a pair of 5060's and last night the fans started going crazy and things were crashing, I restarted and I got a message that the processor was seated in the wrong position and when I got into windows I confirmed that it was only seeing 1 processor (4 cores in task manager as opposed to 8) and I checked that hyperthreading was on, so it is seeing my dual cores as 4. Also I am running windows Vista 64 as I was unable to find a resonable price on xp 64.

 

Anywase on to the actual questions. I know that quads are out as I am running with the DT029 board, but what is the highest I can go? I know that some of the Woodcrests are only duals, should I go for one of these with the higher bus speed, or one of the Dempsys with the higher CPU speed? Or does anyone know what the best processor for this board is hands down that I could pick up relatively cheap?

 

Thanks in advance for the help

 

-Bitz