motherboards - dual cpu

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are there any good dual cpu motherboards out there ?

basically i have a 360 for gaming now, so im looking to upgrade to a Maya / 3dsMAX / cubase platform.

so i was looking at the mac pro which uses 2x quad cores, so i had an idea, i could do this

2x q6600's
a dual cpu motherboard which HAS to have digital coax audio out and onboard sound, good overclocking features

2 tuniq towers

and some kind of decent graphics card

or is there nothing out there and should i just spend 3k on a mac pro ?
 
i saw a board that support dual quad xeons in the last issue of custom pc but i can't remember what it was, price around £350 mark i think.

edit - google throws up the S5000XVN, also a board codenamed 'skulltrail' is being released in Q1 of 2008 which i going from the wiki is s775 as it says it supports yorkfields
 
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You'd be looking at a dual 771 socket motherboard which wouldn't take a Q6600 or any LGA775 CPU for that matter... so you'd need a couple of xeon 771 CPUs... some do have PCI-e x16 so you could put a decent GPU on there... you'd also need ECC RAM which isn't cheap...

For 2.5K you could probably setup a fairly decent system but you wouldn't be finding the parts on Overclockers...
 
Having said that... I just saw some ECC memory way cheaper than it used to be...

Except to pay around £270-350 for the motherboard, around £350 for 8gigs of ECC (if you can get it cheap... and around 2-3x that if not)... £280 for a couple of 2.13gig quad core kentfields - or about £1500 for a couple of high end 3gig quads (I think they are clovertown).

Hmm actually prices have come down a lot lately... unfortunatly no real dual graphic card server boards tho... otherwise I'd be tempted to put one together for some 3D Marks 06 ownage :D
 
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Yeah but its not out yet...

Ooof that Z7S has some interesting potential paired with a couple of 3870X2 hah...
 
Skulltrail is pointless for games as Crysis et al don't even use a Q6600 to anywhere near full capacity.

You should only be interested in the Intel Seaburg 5400 chipset, with 1600FSb and Penryn-based Xeon support. Tbh though, if you're spending that kind of money, a Mac Pro is better.
 
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