dual cpu c2d motherboards?

[eracer2006]

are there any out? i have a fancy towards dual q6600's

 

[Gonzo0]

AMD i think are the only ones that do a dual cpu mobo for their FX-72 Quad Core, the motherboard and cpu's alone cost almost one grand Its not wirth it

 

[lsg1r]

yep theyre workstation boards and use xeon processors, usually looking at around £200+ for the motherboard, then the ram (which is usually non standard ddr2 etc) plus 2x 51xx/53xx (iirc the coding) series cpu's.
Total outlay, usally around £1500-1800 for a bottom end one

Alternatively just buy a mac pro with the dual quads

 

[BillytheImpaler]

lsg1r is quite right. Only Xeons support more than one chip per motherboard.

A Mac Pro or perhaps a Dell Precision 690 would probably be the cheapest and most accessible way to get into dual quads, judging from some research into high-end workstations I've done lately.

 

[lay-z-boy]

Intel are working on skulltrail, a desktop variant of dual cpu server systems.

Should be considerably cheaper than the server variant and not lock you into server hardware such as ecc ddr2

AMD i think are the only ones that do a dual cpu mobo for their FX-72 Quad Core, the motherboard and cpu's alone cost almost one grand Its not wirth it

That is two dual core's to create a last second quad core system and it is slower and less efficient than a qx6700, not two quads.