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Phew, that was a close thing. Bought an old-tech server board last week, a Tyan s7012 and promptly bricked it, which was a bit awkward as it had arrived brand-new in box already populated for a workstation build. Looks like it was originally intended for a Lenovo, with a pair of Xeon X5670s and...

Digging around my box of misc bits I found a couple of 775 HSF retaining rings and wondered if they'd fit the hole spacings in my X8DTE-F, which has a pair of 1366 CPUs. Turns out they match quite nicely, but you have to be careful the legs that touch the PCB aren't fouling any SMD resistors...