Intel Xeon 3200 Series arrive at OcUK!!

[BillytheImpaler]

As far as I can see Hardware is beating Software. I havnt seen a software requiring so much power

waht you think?

It depends on what YOU'RE doing. I contribute to the Folding@Home project. You could give me a rig with hundreds of cores and tebibytes of RAM and I'd still max it out. If all I did was browse the web and and word-precess I'd probably be satisfied by an Athlon XP or similar.

 

[Abz]

Wise Guy

We use Xeon Quads on our server at work and I tell you they get pretty stressed.

I wonder how well they OC compared to C2D

Edit: Stressed I mean used big time. 2x Xeons and about 10Gig ram

 

[Goody_GTI]

I don't know. Perhaps it would be worth it to contact Gigabyte.

True, I really should stop being so lazy

 

[Subliminal Aura]

As nice as this is....

Do we need so much power.

As far as I can see Hardware is beating Software. I havnt seen a software requiring so much power

waht you think?

Someone hand me a shotgun

There is never 'enough power'... Having seen the boys stocking up on quads I am touting the idea of 2xS771 board and 2 quad core xeons ... Yes your maths is right that's 8 cores !



I am suprised to see server boards with PCI-E x16 slots also. The killer unfortunately at the moment is having to use ECC ram but I'm looking at it carefully.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

The major improvement of GA-965P-DS3 revision 2.0 is the optimization for supporting of Intel Core™2 Quad processor which was launched in November 2006. This optimization provides more stable and efficient power for the new quad core processors which demand much higher power consumption than Core™2 duo processors do. There is no performance and compatibility difference between GA-965P-DS3 revision 1.0 and 2.0 when those two products work with Core™2 Duo processor.

The second improvement of GA-965P-DS3 revision 2.0 is the audio quality. GA-965P-DS3 revision 2.0 improves the audio quality by applying Realtek ALC888 audio codec in stead of applying Realtek ALC883 audio codec in revision 1.0.

Judging from that, it would seem the 1.0 CAN support a C2Q but it would do better on a higher revision board. At least that's how I read it.

 

[Goody_GTI]

Judging from that, it would seem the 1.0 CAN support a C2Q but it would do better on a higher revision board. At least that's how I read it.

Cool thanks for that mate

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I am suprised to see server boards with PCI-E x16 slots also.

Don't forget that high-powered rigs like these are frequently used by designers to do CAD, 3D imaging, and other sorts of professional work that requires beefy graphics. It's why nVidia's Quadro line and ATi's FireGL line exist.

The killer unfortunately at the moment is having to use ECC ram but I'm looking at it carefully.

Yeah, I'm waiting for a manufacturer to make a modern Asus PC-DL, a multisocket Xeon board based on a consumer chipset (Canterwood i875) that took cheap DDR rather than expensive ECC memory. Such a modern board would be LGA771, would take DDR2, and would have support dual 16x PCI-e slots.

 

[drak3]

As nice as this is....

Do we need so much power.

As far as I can see Hardware is beating Software. I havnt seen a software requiring so much power

waht you think?

Try run a couple of dedicated game servers ... with 64player slots etc ...

There is software to take advantage of them. but not in our homes yet. Next year for sure tho.

 

[Abz]

Try run a couple of dedicated game servers ... with 64player slots etc ...

There is software to take advantage of them. but not in our homes yet. Next year for sure tho.

Yeah ok, fair enough. am sure my electricity provider will be happy. Cha Ching

 

[Cob]

So it wouldn't work on a rev 1.0 with F10 bios?

I'll know by tomorrow afternoon.

But there's no real reason why it shouldn't run fine.

 

[lay-z-boy]

Yeah, I'm waiting for a manufacturer to make a modern Asus PC-DL, a multisocket Xeon board based on a consumer chipset (Canterwood i875) that took cheap DDR rather than expensive ECC memory. Such a modern board would be LGA771, would take DDR2, and would have support dual 16x PCI-e slots.

Then you will enjoy skulltrial when it goes to retail.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Then you will enjoy skulltrial when it goes to retail.

/raises eyebrow

What is this skulltrial of which you speak, pray tell?

 

[lay-z-boy]

/raises eyebrow

What is this skulltrial of which you speak, pray tell?

I spelt it incorrectly

skulltrail.

2 xeon's (771) with standard desktop chipsets and non ecc/registered ddr2/3
It should support crossfire and Intel's own upcoming gpu's in a multi gpu configuration.

 

[AMDPower]

so what is a good motherboard for overclocking these chips? any that give 370-400fsb?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

so what is a good motherboard for overclocking these chips? any that give 370-400fsb?

As mentioned above, any LGA775 board that will take a C2Q. This includes the popular DS3. DS3P, DS4, P5N, etc boards.

 

[AMDPower]

This includes the popular DS3. DS3P, DS4, P5N, etc boards.

but i clearly remember that most of these that you mentioned have had problems with high fsb overclocks??

 

[BillytheImpaler]

but i clearly remember that most of these that you mentioned have had problems with high fsb overclocks??

370-400 is hardly a high fsb overclock. I've got an E6300 sitting next to me on a DS3 running 430 MHz FSB effortlessly with cheap RAM.

 

[AMDPower]

370-400 is hardly a high fsb overclock. I've got an E6300 sitting next to me on a DS3 running 430 MHz FSB effortlessly with cheap RAM.

sorry should have made myself more clear, i mean problem with quad core + Hight fsb.

 

[PinkFloyd]

These look pretty tidy, guess these are going to be basicly the equivilient to what the socket 939 Opterons were when they first came out.
Will have my eyes on these

 

[Ronaldo]

wow thats a cheap quad core, if it clocks well then its a steal