anyone heard anything else about a dual socket 1366 mobo?

[aCid888*]

Aside from the extra i7, why do this in the first place really?

Your not going to tell me your rig isn't powerful enough, because that's not true is it.....

If the only reason for doing this is to "replace" your current setup, you may as well not bother as it wont be much of an improvement at all...your cards will be limited to 8x and that will hurt their performance as you know.

 

[stormseeker]

It's not listed on Newegg, but being a Nehalem-based Xeon, it should work. You can check on Asus' site, or email them to be sure. Don't expect very high overclocks from this board though.

 

[Fitseries3]

16 threads in vantage would produce a 56000 pts score with my current settings...

 

[aCid888*]

But your cards would be at x8 not x16, that will hurt.

 

[Fitseries3]

not much. i've ran them at 8x and see little difference.

 

[ownage]

Who cares about Vantage?
You won't gain anything with 4 extra cores when playing games.

 

[Fitseries3]

i dont play games at all. never.

you must not know me.

16 threads crunching would ROCK

 

[Sonido]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131374R

i should get that and try it.

id need another 920 and another kit of ram

Do you have a SSI PSU?

 

[Fitseries3]

my enermax says it is.

 

[ownage]

Ah, OK, so you don't game, so you don't need pimp-ass vga's, and don't need PCIe. That makes livea whole lot easier for you.

What project are you on? If its one that supports GPU crunching, then you'd be better off making a GPU farm.
A board with 4x PCIe, 4 vga's crunching, or even more if that's possible

 

[aCid888*]

On the other hand, if you said you got this idea for WCG, then that would indeed be cool.

You could get a D0 stepper for your main rig and OC it higher and a few older, cheaper i7s for this build and run a small "farm" so to speak.

 

[Fitseries3]

i DO need pcie.... for benchmarks. not games.

im curious to know if you checked my system specs

 

[Sonido]

i DO need pcie.... for benchmarks. not games.

im curious to know if you checked my system specs

That Xeon would give you a big boost by itself, let alone in a dual-processor setup. Xeons are 64-bit pimps. I'm curious to see your outcome.

 

[Fitseries3]

i might have to sell my wallet for this setup.

 

[Sonido]

i might have to sell my wallet for this setup.

Sell your current setup and save up. You can get the supplementals first (RAM, and ETC.).

 

[Fitseries3]

ram is cheap and i already have plenty. i have 2 kits of 3x2gb ddr3

im close to selling my 920 already. i have a few people interested.

my dfi is almost sold as well.

the only things im keeping are my psu, gtx295s and cooling setup.

of course i'll need another heatkiller3 and xigmatek DK...

i only lack the proper motherboard and 2 w3520's.

thats 2x $315 for cpu's + whatever the mobo costs me.

 

[Sonido]

Fit, I know you know your stuff, but you do have RDDR3 right? If I'm not mistaken, that server board, like 99.999999999999999% all others, requires it. I'm know I'm going to get a "Duh.." reply, but I just don't wanna leave anything untouched.

 

[Fitseries3]

no no...

the 1366 boards take regular run of the mill ddr3.

even in the reviews theres a few guys running ocz golds on the asus boards and its working for them.

 

[Sonido]

I just checked into that. I feel old. It's different from before, where the memory controller was on the board itself.

 

[Fitseries3]

yeah... thats the whole reason i didnt go skulltrail.

 

[Disparia]

Intel told us that they won't do a reference motherboard for Nehalem dual socket, super desktop machine but there is still hope that partners will do it. Intel has told us that partners can do it, and it will be up to Asus, MSI and Gigabyte to manufacture one.

We are not sure if top three manufacturer are already working on new Skulltrail board based on Nehalem EP dual CPU platform, but this might be the only hope in survival of Skulltrail as a concept, sspecially in 2009. Super expensive computers might have a tough time to sell in a time of economic hardship, but the chaps who can buy Skulltrail can still buy Skulltrail II. However, it would just cost Intel too much money to sell only a few tens of thousands of units.

An even bigger is the lack of performance increases in a normal desktop environment with so many cores, as it’s very hard to put even single Nehalem to good use, not to mention two of them.

Still, niche markets like workstation and video editing might benefit from this platform, but they will be free to buy Nehalem-EP as of end of this month.

Fit. I understand.

 

[Fitseries3]

does windows 7 even support 16 threads? maybe we should think of ever aspect here.

 

[erocker]

I'd hold off on a server board right now. The Lucid chip will be making their way onto them this year then get one. Lucid chip = 100% scaling for everything apparently.

 

[Fitseries3]

yeah but the whole nehalem platform is limited by the ~220-230 BCLK wall.

until they can get 250+ bclk im more leaning towards 2x cpu.

and i doubt many other people will follow me on that kinda setup.

 

[ownage]

If there will be a dual Nehalem board that also has all the desktop functionality, it has to be a Skulltrail board. Asus made the Z7-WS board, but most of those boards died they delivered bad support.