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I was just thinking... Is there a possibility of a dual-socket motherboard coming out soon? Like.. having 2xQuad-Core CPUs would be kick***.
Anyways...
They already have them out. AMD just came out with a Dual-Socket F motherboard, but you're going to need 2 Socket F processors to run it on 2 sockets, but as of right now only the Dual-Core FX-72 socket F and Dual-Core Opteron socket F can take advantage of these Dual-Socket F motherboards. The Intel Core 2 Quad and Xeon 51xx Quad still beats the 2 seperate Dual Core FX-72 and Dual Core Opteron 2xxx on the Dual-Socket F motherboard in benchmarks though.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI
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According to Intel, they don't have any reason to at this time.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI
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I was actually looking for more of a PC motherboard instead of a server's. I already knew that I could get dual Xeon's on a motherboard. A PC tech who passed away recently built a dual Pentium 3 Xeon with 512MB of RAM in 1998 I believe. It ran on 98 and it was incredible at the time. It still runs as fast as when he first built it except the power supply died out a week ago. 125V.
Anyways.
Thanks for the link anyways.
I like chicken.
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A server may not be a workstation but that doesn't mean it's not a PC. FYI, the "Cloverton" Xeon quad-core CPUs from Intel are architecturally identical to Intel's Core 2 Extreme quad-core chips that you'd find on a desktop, except for a one major benefit, its ability to be plopped in a multi-processor configurations.
I think you need to unask your question.
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Uhm. Thank you, Sabertooth. And I refuse to un-ask my question.
But here's a new question!
How much does this multi-CPU motherboard cost? I can't find the price... Or am I overlooking something?I like chicken.
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Ok, to clear this whole thing up, the only Dual Socket platform that is designed for pc users is the new Socket L chipset motherboard.
Even though the Socket F chipset and the Socket L chipset both have the same number of pins, the Socket F processor and Socket L processors are not compatible with each other. This is due to the Socket L chipset using unregistered ram, while Socket F chipset uses registered ram. Not to mention both Socket F and Socket L are voltage regulated differently.
If that wasn't confusing enough then here is the real confusing part.
The Socket F is a server motherboard which mainly supports Socket F Opterons 2xxx, but there are Socket F FX processors floating around too which are the FX 70, FX 72 and FX 74. Why would AMD make a Socket FX processor on a server motherboard? It's designed for game servers and gaming developers.
The Socket L chipset is designed around the pc gaming enthusiast. As of right now the only Socket L motherboard out on the market is the Asus NVIDIA nForce 680a SLI MCP SSI CEB and the only Socket L processor out on the market is the FX-74.
This is the diff between both Sockets and what they are designed for.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI
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"How much does this multi-CPU motherboard cost? I can't find the price... Or am I overlooking something?"
I bet you are. If you go back to the link I supplied earlier, you can click "Where To Buy" for a list of vendors (including NewEgg) & pricing information.
Even though you are *not* getting one, you can at least see what folks that did have to say about the applicable motherboard and systems built around it.
Good luck!
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Like I said the Socket L is for the gaming enthusiast that can afford to throw down 3 grand plus on a pc system.
For the rest of us you are just going to have to wait a year or year in a half to see these prices come down to the affordable range.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI
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running a dual P3 Xeon in win 98 defeats the point .. since 98 cant use 2 cpus ... perhaps he was using nt4?
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