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    Intel Xeon E5-2670 Deal and Price Tracking

    Yeah, for mine I needed both a 24pin main PSU extension and a 8 pin for CPU 2 power. My case was used from eBay, had the original SAS expander, as I'm using 8TB drives I picked up a BPN-SAS2-846E1 as well from eBay. Was easy to swap. I liked the cleanness of having only 1 cable for all 24 drives.
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    Intel Xeon E5-2670 Deal and Price Tracking

    Download Intel® Server Board S2600CP Firmware Update Package for EFI Download this, put it on a bootable flash drive. There's a S2600CP.sdr file in the top directory, it's a text file that defines all the sensors and fan ramp speeds. For a non-Intel chassis that's using the "slow ramp" fan...
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    Intel Xeon E5-2670 Deal and Price Tracking

    Just wanted to join in the conversation: I picked up the Natex combo, and have it running in a SuperMicro 846, with the SQ power supplies, Noctua i4 heatsinks, and I've hand modified the S2600.spr bios file for the system fans so the machine is pretty quiet now. My only issue is the PMBus...