Dual Cpu Board

[bigdawgfoxx]

Do dual CPU boards just come in server forms or what? Why cant they just make like a regular nForce 2 board, that uses regular DDR Ram, but have 2 sockets in it and let us put TWO CPUs in them? Do they exist or is it just for servers? I wish they would make some for regular chips..

[SingaBoiy]

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[Marius24]

They are very expensive and not really worth it. Best wait and hopefully they might come down in price :unsure:

[tesco]

dual athlon 64 fx *drools*

[Mad Cat]

Originally posted by ROSSCO_2004@6 March 2004 - 18:04
dual athlon 64 fx *drools*
You have to get specialised dual CPUs too don't you?

If not we'd see many more dual processor setups.


Dual Athlon FX, thats basically Opteron...

EDIT: I've got a dual CPU motherboard by the way.

[Neo 721]

Unfortunatly you cant realy feel the difference. They're only effective for programs that have been written to support them, its the way the motherboards are set up they connect to 2 different gateways so in effect it like 2 cars running at 30mph each, but that doesnt make it 60

[Mad Cat]

Originally posted by Neo 721@6 March 2004 - 18:26
Unfortunatly you cant realy feel the difference. They're only effective for programs that have been written to support them, its the way the motherboards are set up they connect to 2 different gateways so in effect it like 2 cars running at 30mph each, but that doesnt make it 60
You can multi-task more effectively though, and I think thats probably mainly the point.

[Neo 721]

Thats true applications like photoshop are well suited to this.

[tesco]

Originally posted by Neo 721@6 March 2004 - 13:26
Unfortunatly you cant realy feel the difference. They're only effective for programs that have been written to support them, its the way the motherboards are set up they connect to 2 different gateways so in effect it like 2 cars running at 30mph each, but that doesnt make it 60
in windows xp pro (not sure about other os's) you can choose which cpu runs which kind of apps right? im pretty sure you can because i read somewhere that intels hyperthreaded cpu's act like 2 cpu's and you can choose to have certain work run on the hyperthreading and have games run on the real cpu.

[Neo 721]

Thats the trouble, its realy just evening the tasks out which in turn is more effective for demanding applications but not gaming and performance issues

[Mad Cat]

Originally posted by Neo 721@6 March 2004 - 18:47
Thats the trouble, its realy just evening the tasks out which in turn is more effective for demanding applications but not gaming and performance issues
Wait, if you have 2 CPUs, one that runs games ONLY, thats much better than one CPU doing all things at the same time.

[_John_Lennon_]

You can also set each CPU to Fold @ Home individually, and things will go twice as fast.

:D

Newegg has a dual board btw, for like 140 I think.

[Neo 721]

In some cases they can be set to do 2 differnt things but in most cases it is mearly 2 processers acting in unison.

[bigdawgfoxx]

I wouldnt want a dual board that would have to have 500 dollar CPUs though...just one that can hold 2 2500XPs