Help Picking Extreme Motherboard

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Hi All, I am looking for a motherboard that supports:

2 x Intel Quad Core E5365 3.0GHz Processors
Minimum 2 x PCIe x 16 Slots
Minimum 32 GB memory

Any Ideas?
 
Only found these so far, that use the Xeon 771 chipset. Here they are below.

SUPERMICRO, X7DAE, Intel 5000X, DDR2-667 ECC FB 32GB /8, PCIe x16, SATA II RAID 5 /6, Audio, GbLAN /2, IPMI 2.0, EATX, Retail
http://www.avadirect.com/product_details_parts.asp?PRID=6757

TYAN Tempest i5000PX (S5380)
http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=433

Tempest i5000XT (S2696)
http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=43

or this one with 64gb from Tyan, by using a memory riser add-on.

Tempest i5000PW (S5382)
http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=439

Here is also a Link for all of Tyan boards.
http://www.tyan.com/tech/product_matrix.aspx

Hope this is what you are looking for.
 
When I read your post the first thing I thought was Tyan but Yoosty beat me to it. Tyan makes very good server boards you should look there first.
 
I had looked at the Tyan boards and they looked great. One thing that confused me though is, I am looking for 2 PCI express x 16 slots and the Tyan boards list the slots like:

1 PCI Express x16 (x4 Sig.)
1 PCI Express x16 (x16 Sig.)

Does that mean it has a x16 and an x4 Slot?

Thanks!
 
It means 1 will be at full 16 speed and the other runs at 4 speed. Tyan has 1 board that runs at 16x and the other at 8x speed and another board that has both running at 8x speed.

The only one I saw that let both run at 16x was for an AMD Operton, but it also had 2 PCIe 16 (x4sig).

Believe same goes for the SuperMicro mobo's also. Either they cut spped in half for both PCI Express x16 or 1 will run at 16 signal and they other 4 signal.