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#1 2007-10-13 4:33 pm
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dual cpu intel board
I have a friend building a pc for both gaming and multimedia/3D work. He doesn't care for macs and wants to build it himself anyway.
My question is are there dual processor intel mainboards one can buy through a place like newegg? I've found one through msi but it looks like a server board more than anything. Also are there any sli dual processor mainboards as well that are intel based not AMD. Intel is a must since nurbs can't be done on amd chips due to foreign policies.
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#2 2007-10-13 11:02 pm
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Re: dual cpu intel board
dual-socket mainboards are usually server boards.
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#3 2007-10-13 11:31 pm
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Re: dual cpu intel board
^^ the Mac Pro uses a server board as well.
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#4 2007-10-14 12:35 pm
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Re: dual cpu intel board
maleko wrote:
^^ the Mac Pro uses a server board as well.
I was under the impression that it was custom designed? I know it uses a server chipset - but does it support SLI?
Newegg's parts browser says that the only SLI motherboards that are also server motherboards (meaning they have more than one CPU socket) are Opteron boards. So basically, I think you're limited.
If being a pair of 4-core Opterons is "limited."
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#5 2007-10-17 3:20 pm
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Re: dual cpu intel board
Hahahaha.."limited." Yeah...your only "limit" there is Windows.
Anyway, I think you are right. Dual socket boards don't exist, other than server boards, as far as I know....what about actually using a Mac Pro board? Possible?
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#6 2007-10-17 7:20 pm
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Re: dual cpu intel board
pkmgarf wrote:
Hahahaha.."limited." Yeah...your only "limit" there is Windows.
Anyway, I think you are right. Dual socket boards don't exist, other than server boards, as far as I know....what about actually using a Mac Pro board? Possible?
Inasmuch as you could boot windows with it, sure. But expensive as hell.
And it's not that dual socket boards that aren't strictly server boards don't exist - it's that dual socket Intel boards that support SLI seem to be a rarity.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/moth … /X7DAE.cfm
That's one - as you can see, the second "x16" slot is actually a 4x PCI-E slot with a larger physical connector. It would probably support SLI okay.
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#7 2007-10-17 7:21 pm
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Re: dual cpu intel board
There's also the iWill DN800.
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#8 2007-10-18 1:52 am
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Re: dual cpu intel board
Probably cause how many out there want dual socket boards with SLI now when we have multiple core single socket boards that will get the same tasks done?
Think in the end you'll find it be better overall to just dump the $$$ into a good regular SLI setup then go quad core or better.
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#9 2007-10-18 3:28 pm
