Hi Peter,
TYVM for the reply.
Looks like I was wrong! and my CPU is 64 bit:
https://ark.intel.com/products/35300/Intel-Pentium-Processor-E5300-2M-Cache-2_60-GHz-800-MHz-FSBI dont know why I thought it wasn't. The low frequency I think helps with the overall good sound I was always getting from this machine.
Anyway, last night I went ahead and got the 32bit image of build 14393, and installed offline from usb (too old mainboards do not support that, but gladly mine does). My concern was lack of driver. Instead, everything works. I just had to fiddle to manually install intel gfx.
Note: W10 has indeed 32 bit versions but 2016 server (which I also wanted to try has not).
I have to verify about RDC because I would prefer to not buy another license. This is the first thing I have to do before getting a new image 64bit and install it. ha
Second thing is to verify if xxhigend 2.09 isn't too much a resource hog for this computer.
I do not have a usb3 port on this mainboard, so I think I will get a pci-e usb3 card: is any chipset preferred (Renesas or? Intel afaik doesn't make second market usb cards)
I downloaded the latest xxhe version 2.09 and plan to go straight with it. I think I will have to pm or mail you for activation code, as I have read.
Thanks also for the heads up about future mainboards and processors. 40 cores xeons are way too expensive for what they offers wrt 24 cores ones IMO.
I'm aware of the Stealth PC you offer but I prefer to build things myself, and keep my case, but if possible I may want to buy the mainboard and LPS from you. Looking at the inside pictures it shoudl fit. We will talk about this later this year.