motherboard w/ two processors what are they called?

**Tempestv** · 03-01-2006, 07:47 AM

It all depends on what you are doing. at the cad lab we use PRO-E which is pretty resource hungry, and we were running it on old dells with 256 ram and onboard video. (they were replaced the semester after I had my cad class and are all new now) of course we weren't modeling very complex parts, and if they got complex at all you had to suppress elements so they weren't taking up ram. it all depends on what you are doing with the programs. if you are modeling an entire car in PRO-E you are going to want a couple gigs of ram and a damn good graphics card.

**Snee** · 03-01-2006, 01:12 PM

Originally Posted by fkdup74

I wonder if they'll make one of those quad socket mofos for the AM2....
AM2 will (should) introduce the quad core Opterons...
quad core x quad socket.....ooooohhh yeah

I've been wondering about that as well, it would be pretty cool (probably not literally), altho' waaaay out of my price-range

Also, I was pretty sure they announced a board with dual sockets and SLi, but I didn't see it now, at first.

But it's the Thunder K8WE (S2895)

I'd not mind having that board, if I could ever get the money for that, two of the best NVidia cards I could find, and two of the best opterons.

One day tho', one day I will get a board that's that buffed up compared to the other mobos on the market.

I hope.

**Snee** · 03-01-2006, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by clocker

Wrong.

Originally Posted by Newegg

PNY VCQFX3400-PCIE-PB Quadro FX3400 256MB 256-bit DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail

All the Quadros.

Imagine two 4500s running in SLi.

Smooth CAD-work.

**Tempestv** · 03-01-2006, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by SnnY

But it's the Thunder K8WE (S2895)

I'd not mind having that board, if I could ever get the money for that, two of the best NVidia cards I could find, and two of the best opterons.

A very Nice motherboard, but if you are going to dream, why not dream for one of Tyan's quad socket mobos?

**Snee** · 03-01-2006, 06:08 PM

Why bother about that, when Tyan has mobos with eight sockets as well?

There's only so much processing power I need.
The K8WE-version I was talking about would be enough for pretty much anything I can think of.

**fkdup74** · 03-02-2006, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by SnnY

Originally Posted by fkdup74

I wonder if they'll make one of those quad socket mofos for the AM2....
AM2 will (should) introduce the quad core Opterons...
quad core x quad socket.....ooooohhh yeah

I've been wondering about that as well, it would be pretty cool (probably not literally), altho' waaaay out of my price-range

this just on a quad socket with dual cores

**Tempestv** · 03-02-2006, 03:44 PM

plus $8000 for 16 2gig sticks of 184pin registered ram
plus harddrives (15000 rpm raid array?)
plus two top level graphics cards...
ya, I can't afford it.