Dual CPU motherboards?
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Almost all of these are designed for servers and have few if no PCIe slots. There's the Intel Skulltrail motherboard for S771 (not the same as S775) which has dual socket and quad-PCIe iirc. But the only processors for it are £700+ each.
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i7 is for single socket only.
You need a 5500 series Xeon for the 1336 dual cpu boards, if running two cpu's.
What are looking to run on the machine that you will build.
You need a 5500 series Xeon for the 1336 dual cpu boards, if running two cpu's.
What are looking to run on the machine that you will build.
You can build a mega-system for £1200 even with a single CPU i7, no need for dual CPUs, it boosts the cost in RAM and motherboard without much gain in games. If it is gaming you want splash it on a better graphics card, bigger monitor, better sound-system, etc.
ah i see so its basicly useless for dual cpus (unless your making a server of some sort w/e ).
I was looking at the core i7s, i want the extreme edition but i dont want anything like WOW on a cheap motherboard, ill have to balance it out somehow. Im not doing this pc for gaming. My old gaming pc( use all around ) was crap at video editing and 3d modeling, so im needing something more powerfull on the 3d max/ video editing side.
when making long videos with lots of effects and stuff, in the editing mode it lagged like hell.
I was looking at the core i7s, i want the extreme edition but i dont want anything like WOW on a cheap motherboard, ill have to balance it out somehow. Im not doing this pc for gaming. My old gaming pc( use all around ) was crap at video editing and 3d modeling, so im needing something more powerfull on the 3d max/ video editing side.
when making long videos with lots of effects and stuff, in the editing mode it lagged like hell.
There is an Asus dual socket LGA1366 mobo that is supposed to be the replacement to the Skulltrail dual socket board according to Fudzilla...
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/12405/1/
Like the others have said, unless you need dual CPU's for something specific, you could build a poweful enough system using just one Nehalem based processor..
And you couldn't use the i7's for that board, only the Gainestown Xeon's would work on this mobo.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/12405/1/
Like the others have said, unless you need dual CPU's for something specific, you could build a poweful enough system using just one Nehalem based processor..
And you couldn't use the i7's for that board, only the Gainestown Xeon's would work on this mobo.
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My previous PC was a dual Pentium III affair. I liked that a lot; it served me well for five good years. 
Anyway, as others have said, it seems the days of dual-CPU consumer PC have passed. Instead, we now have multiple cores within a single CPU.
Anyway, as others have said, it seems the days of dual-CPU consumer PC have passed. Instead, we now have multiple cores within a single CPU.There is plenty of dual socket 1366 boards about but as someone said they are for xeons only. Which for all intents and purposes are i7 anyway.
You won'y find any sold on ocuk but do a google search and there are many made by tyan and supermicro. Contrary to the above you can find these with both single and multiple pci-e x16 slots. However don't expect to be able to overlock these boards very far if at all, they are built for 24/7 stability, server/workstation use. And you will also in most cases need ecc ddr3.
You won'y find any sold on ocuk but do a google search and there are many made by tyan and supermicro. Contrary to the above you can find these with both single and multiple pci-e x16 slots. However don't expect to be able to overlock these boards very far if at all, they are built for 24/7 stability, server/workstation use. And you will also in most cases need ecc ddr3.
I did find a uk site selling a tyan motherboards but i dont know if there dual cpus ( it was just a quick flick through the prices ) the prices where around £300-400.
What you said about 24/7 stability was one of the reason why i like them, i NEVER switch my pcs off.
Well maybe in the future there will be dual cpu motherboards what can support 2 core i7 processors *drools* just think about the power!!!!!!! and the electricity bill
What you said about 24/7 stability was one of the reason why i like them, i NEVER switch my pcs off.
Well maybe in the future there will be dual cpu motherboards what can support 2 core i7 processors
*drools* just think about the power!!!!!!! and the electricity bill
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