Gaming Dedicated Server Motherboard

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Most likely modest, but as I just found out, I think you should go with the Skulltrail, as I had found that the Asus has some faulty board out their, that are not compatible with all CPUs, and you need to request a new BIOS chip be shipped to you and install it yourself.

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You really want to heavily overclock a system that you won't have convenient access to?

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Yea severely overclocking a server really isn't the way to go.. perhaps a few hundred mhz...but seriously, you need reliability in a server, not a tiny bit more cpu speed.

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I doubt that, I have a 2.0 Quad going in a box right now, it can't handle more than 66tic. I am aiming at 54 slots at 75 tic. It uses around 99% of the CPU usage at 54 slots at 66tic, if I try at 75tic the tickrate drops. CS:S is a non multi-threaded game therefore it relies heavily on CPU frequency.

It will be stress tested hard before it gets shipped out. I am probably going to make it run at 3.0 or 3.2 ghz, with appropriate cooling.

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Yeah, but I wouldn't have to enter bios for it. It gets setup, built, and overclocked and tested at my place, then shipped off to the datacenter.

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And what if the overclock goes bad and you have to enter the bios to fix it?

So to be clear, you are trying to run several CSS servers? Otherwise skulltrail would be a huge waste lol.

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Its only $60 to get the datacenter to fix it. I highly doubt that though.

Yes, several CS:S servers.

I suggest the Asus. I don't suggest overclocking it.

I own the skulltrail board, and i've worked in datacenter environments. big ones.

you don't want to overclock something that goes into a datacenter. you're going to throw off the power utilization of any rack that it's in.

it's expensive to service equipment in a datacenter. if you have to manually reset your BIOS, that requires on-site to manage that.

overclocking doesn't let you process more. it lets you process what you have to process more quickly. putting more stress on your overclocked system increases the risk of failure.

even if you still plan on overclocking, the Asus, i'm sure, doesn't have the problems that the Intel board has. read the reviews-- the BIOS is slow. if you plan on administering this board via remote, this will frustrate you. In addition, there are very limited ways to overclock the Intel board. Setting the voltage, for example is utterly ridiculous. I own two sets of Xeon processors, and both of them have a voltage range that is lower than what Skulltrail offers to set it at, statically. I have to let my BIOS control my voltage just so it doesn't have to go above 1.3v. Just read the reviews about what options you have and don't have in BIOS. I'd like to trade my system for something else just because of how slow the BIOS responds when I simply want to move from page to page.

EDIT: those heatsinks are not going to cope with what you're trying to do. notice what cores they're made for-- they're for dual core Xeons. not quad cores. and certainly not overclocked quad cores. EDIT2: the Dynatron is made for quad cores less than 2.33GHz. I wouldn't trust that.

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1U, we might not overclock it.