Recent content by Hypocritus

You are perhaps the perfect politician. I have almost always had good experiences buying from China through eBay. The auction linked to was a seller in the United States. I'll definitely check out taobao. May your 3 babies have long life!!

@ycp, Read my last post. Did you buy one of more of these?

@squidman, Funny you should mention the dead E5 2696v3's. You got rooked by this auction, didn't you? I purchased the last one of that auction. I originally tried to purchase all 10 with a Best Offer, but thankfully he didn't answer in time. These are definitely bad chips. I left an eBay...

With Supermicro Haswell/Broadwell motherboards, you SHOULD use RDIMMs, but you can use 8GB (and up) UDIMMs. You cannot use 4GB UDIMMs. You can test the memory by trying to boot with only 1 DIMM in the board. Supermicro C612 chipset Dual CPU boards do not have to have memory per CPU. It just...