Please say 4 in the server! Please say 4 in the server! Please say 4 in the server! Please say 4 in the server!
Isn't that the new MP chip? If so, that's 4 CPUs, and you don't want to be near one of those systems. @Bindi Out of curiosity, can you say who you are bugging for a box?
A related, but slightly off topic segue.... Is there a decent enthusiast board that looks good, is overclockable, and also takes Xeon CPUs apart from the Asus supercomputer thing?
EVGA soon or have released a dual socket Xeon board for the current i7 Xeons, that has all the features an overclocker would enjoy. The thing with Quad socket boards is you don't need to overclock due to the amount of processing power already!
Yes but the server boards have PCI-E slots, and there's even a board which supports Crossfire for Xeons
its a server chip problem with using server chips at home is the noise they make. You basically need water cooling or your living in a huricane for the next few months not alot of programs use 8 threads wonder how many use 16
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2010/01/27/evga-w555-dual-xeon-motherboard/1 You want one of these, Pook.
WANT!!!!!!!!!!! I'm assuming that will take the CPU that started this thread?.. I mean two of them 16 cores, 32 threads... overclocked... LOL.. That is stupid... but I want!!! I'd need a new case though... that board is err... big! [EDIT] Just checked the price of Xeon W5xxx chips. FOrget it LOL
The second you make your way from 2-way to 4-way capable processors the price increases ever so slightly. Consider where they're being used though, and consider the alternatives to an intel based system (a P-series box with the same processing power is likely to cost at least 4 times as much) and they're actually a stonking deal.
The real bargin atm is AMD 6 core socket F based systems, you can build a 12 core system for little under £1K (two Istanbul and a board) memory would increase the cost a little. So for what, ~£1200 you could have a 12 core monster, considering 6 core Istanbul's are about £300 depending on what you fancy, same sort of money for the motherboard. So when it comes to CPU intensive work like rendering its really down to the amount of cores in a SMP setup that really makes it a fast machine. I'm still creaming over a system over the pond that has 4x Shanghai's in his project log! 16 core beast, which i bet will end up a 24 core beast before its finished!
