Gaming Socket 604 Motherboard?

crestj · 19 Sep 2008 at 14:06

I've been looking around for a motherboard that will fit into a standard atx case that is socket 604 CPU compatible.

The only one's I can find don't have PCI-E slots so it makes it impossible to fit a decent graphics card.

Does anyone know of any high spec gaming motherboards that meet this spec?

:confused:

Tetras · 19 Sep 2008 at 14:10

Socket 604 is a server platform, you'd be hard pressed to find any motherboards marketed at gamers and they will all be expensive and require ECC memory.

I'd suggest you check the websites of Intel, Supermicro, Asus, MSI and Tyan.

crestj · 19 Sep 2008 at 14:13

I know it's a tall order but I have 2 Intel 6-core Dunnington CPU's sitting around that I'd like to use in a desktop.

I've tried all those sites but none have PCI-E or they are ATX!

thewanted · 19 Sep 2008 at 14:17

crestj said:
I know it's a tall order but I have 2 Intel 6-core

/off-topic, but I'd love to see those do some HD encoding

Do you have the sSpec number for them?

crestj · 19 Sep 2008 at 14:21

sSpec = http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLG9K

They are Folding right now and doing a wonderful job!

Tetras · 19 Sep 2008 at 14:22

I've tried all those sites but none have PCI-E or they are ATX!

Many large ATX cases actually do support E-ATX but I don't honestly think you'll find any 604 boards in a standard ATX format.

thewanted · 19 Sep 2008 at 14:25

crestj said:
sSpec? Explain?
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It's a 5 character string, starting with S, that you can use to look up the specs on http://processorfinder.intel.com/. It's generally found on the retail box, or on the CPUs themselves.

What speed do they run at?

crestj · 19 Sep 2008 at 14:27

They came to me as Beta CPU's so there was no box and the only thing on the CPU was "INTEL BETA"!

Just checked with CPU-Z and it's these:
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLG9K

SinaiSound · 19 Sep 2008 at 14:28

I-Will DN800

Good luck finding one though considering Iwill has folded

http://www.digitaldingus.com/reviews/iwill/dn800-sli/index.php

http://www.xtremecomputing.co.uk/review.php?id=188

thewanted · 19 Sep 2008 at 14:29

Thanks mate. Those look like beasts! Sorry I can't be of any help.

crestj · 19 Sep 2008 at 14:32

Hefner that looks awesome, although the motherboard in those links is ideal (albeit missing DVI and a couple of other things) but the review is 2 years old!

Surely there are newer versions of this!

Happy · 19 Sep 2008 at 15:56

Christ

That looks like a beastly set up, what's your PPD?

crestj · 19 Sep 2008 at 15:58

About 10,000 on that server. It's running 6 F@H SMP clients atm

Cob · 19 Sep 2008 at 16:00

Fancy switching teams

nightmare99 · 19 Sep 2008 at 18:42

Good luck finding one though considering Iwill has folded

Iwill didn't fold they were bought out by Flextronics.

Fothsn · 19 Sep 2008 at 19:06

24 Cores! WOW

Can we please have some CPU benchmarks? Would be good to see what there like

ZedPowered · 19 Sep 2008 at 19:09

Bet Crysis still runs like a dog haha!

I want 6 Cores

Fothsn · 19 Sep 2008 at 19:12

Of course Its 12 cores and 12 threads, not 24 cores duh!

I take it its using HT?