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Is it possible to have two Intel i7 CPU's in one motherboard?

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by MangaRx, Jan 29, 2010.

  1. MangaRx

    MangaRx Well-Known Member

    There, question says it all really, thinking of getting or making a pc.
     
  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    No. Only server processors can be used in multiprocessor boards. i7 is not a server processor.
     
  3. MangaRx

    MangaRx Well-Known Member

    OK, thanks that was what I wanted to know
     
  4. Paddette

    Paddette Well-Known Member

    You could cluster. I've never heard of a two computer cluster though.
     
  5. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    thats generally not feasible without special hardware and a unix based OS.
     
  6. garychencool

    garychencool Well-Known Member

    No, no and no! Servers have that. Xeon processor, 6-cores for servers!
     
  7. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    xeons are ancient crap, 3rd generation opterons are much better.
     
  8. Gamer4life88266

    Gamer4life88266 Active Member

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Skulltrail
     
  9. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    thats dumb, it uses fully buffered memory, which is extremely high latency. bad decision, gamers need low latency. As for being 'ahead of its time', I've had an 8 core computer for coming up on 2 years now.
     
  10. Gamer4life88266

    Gamer4life88266 Active Member

    i didnt know the skulltrail is something i heard about a couple years ago that could have two cpus on one motherboard and thought it was cool and when i read this topic i was just letting him know about it
     
  11. MangaRx

    MangaRx Well-Known Member

    Thanks for the info.
     
  12. Paddette

    Paddette Well-Known Member

    It's also completely pointless.
     
  13. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Not really, render farms and the like benefit hugely.
     
  14. Paddette

    Paddette Well-Known Member

    I meant for home use. For anything that needs the power, then, yeah.
     
  15. PuffyChain

    PuffyChain Well-Known Member

    i never heard about 2 processors in one mobo...
     
  16. Mechawyvern

    Mechawyvern Member

    http://www.evga.com/articles/00537/

    Have to use Xeon processors, but its dual socket and intended for home use, not server.
     
  17. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Xeons are server processors and are priced accordingly. Also the new form factor is a bad thing, as there are virtually no cases that will take a board that big.
     
  18. ultra

    ultra Guest

    the answer is yes, but it would not be in accordance to consumer based products but rather business based products. servers are not for the consumers but rather businesses. sure consumers can buy them as you can buy a xeon processor from newegg.com but the cost are something that consumers can't afford but businesses can.

    as loony have mentioned, it is hard to find some motherboards that due fit the standard consumer atx and extended atx case form. but what loony forgot is that consumers who would run such a setup are likely those who are very enthusiastic computer geeks, so the form factor case wouldn't be a problem. how so? because enthusiast don't buy their cases, they make their own cases by modding existing cases.

    if you look at that evga motherboard, it is a consumer based product that uses server based parts. the 1366 processors for that evga board aren't the typically 1366, but the xeon server based 1366. some of them are cheap and some of them are high.

    was my assistance helpful?
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  19. PuffyChain

    PuffyChain Well-Known Member

    wow, amazing! i've never seen before...
     
  20. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Enthusiastic computer geeks wouldnt be using Xeons. Xeon processors get completely and utterly thrashed by the higher end i7s