anyone heard anything else about a dual socket 1366 mobo?

[Fitseries3]

well seeing how this is a whole new platform, and memory controller is on the cpu so you can use regular ddr3 instead of ECC.... i think it would have a good calling.

 

[Fitseries3]

ah crap...

needs to be a w, e, or x55XX cpu for dual socket.

they all have dual QPI's.

w3520 doesnt.

the e5520's are only $199 though...

 

[ownage]

So you can't put I9x0 cpu's in a dual 1366? I was hoping it could.

 

[Naekuh]

not to bust your bubble fit, but it wont work.

The 920 as well as any consumer i7 you can buy is a 1 x QPI chip with the second QPI disabled.

You need an expensive 2 x QPI chip for dual communication to work, and those are uber money.

Also not to mention that the dual QPI chips have there memory/qpi divider locked, your hopes at a 4.5 8 core 16thread machine is about 1 yr too earily.

Example when you put a 2xQPI chip inside a X58 Board... im missing 3 options in bios:

the only chip i know which has a remote possibly to do something like that is a W5580, but good luck getting those when there almost 2000 dollars a pop.

And this is coming from experience, i own a gainestown pair chip which Dave (movieman) is happily running for me until such board YOU are looking for comes out for me to buy.

There called Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum for now....

*sigh* gainestown... another financial stupidty i commited too..

 

[Kantastic]

i go for the biggest and fastest stuff i can get.

Buy a Lexus or something!

 

[yogurt_21]

yeah I think you'll be tossing money away for less gaming/benching performance than you ahve now. servers are not designed for gaming and aren't going to give you what you want.

what you want is a new toy to try so go get a new gal and have fun. then when 6 cores come out you can have fun again. then repeat for 12 cores, etc.

it's either that or get an executive job at intel so you can try the chips before they're released.

 

[3870x2]

not to bust your bubble fit, but it wont work.

The 920 as well as any consumer i7 you can buy is a 1 x QPI chip with the second QPI disabled.

You need an expensive 2 x QPI chip for dual communication to work, and those are uber money.

Also not to mention that the dual QPI chips have there memory/qpi divider locked, your hopes at a 4.5 8 core 16thread machine is about 1 yr too earily.

Example when you put a 2xQPI chip inside a X58 Board... im missing 3 options in bios:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p73/aigomorla/IMG_0162.jpg

the only chip i know which has a remote possibly to do something like that is a W5580, but good luck getting those when there almost 2000 dollars a pop.

And this is coming from experience, i own a gainestown pair chip which Dave (movieman) is happily running for me until such board YOU are looking for comes out for me to buy.

There called Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum for now....
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p73/aigomorla/Joke.jpg

*sigh* gainestown... another financial stupidty i commited too..

I think that that could be fixed simply with a compatible motherboard, so that the processors don't share threads. Isn't that how the older dual socket mobos worked? Sort of acting apart from each other.

 

[Disparia]

Not really, those older boards had glueless (native) support for 2 CPUs, and the CPU's used were able to run in a 2-way configuration. There's some exceptions, but that's generally how it was.

Perhaps someone could build a QuickPath switch (like PCIe switches) that would allow two (or more) i7's to connect to the X58 IOH. I'm not an engineer, so I don't know complexity involved.

 

[Fitseries3]

 

[Disparia]

Beautiful

In fact, I'm working up a proposal right now for a pair of dual 5520 servers. Though while he has 12GB, I'm aiming for 24GB

 

[exo17]

Assuming you have a 920, why not get a 965 if you want to upgrade without the hassle of dual socket compatibility? (although it is ultra uber expensive as im sure you know)

 

[DRDNA]

Fits ....I LOVE IT ! Its awesome how serious you take benching which by the way is my favorite thing to do with my PC's!

 

[thebeephaha]

Fits

I just got in a nice dual Xeon 1366 rig to play with at work today. Tomorrow I will run benches and check out options in BIOS but I'm sure it doesn't OC.

It is a Supermicro board with dual 3.2GHz quad Xeons. (engineering samples too mind you)

Should pump out some impressive numbers even at stock.

EDIT:

• Supermicro X8DA3 Motherboard ($550) (supports NINETY SIX GB of RAM)
• 2x Intel Xeon W5580 Engineering Sample 3.2GHz CPUs ($2000 a pop!)
• 6x2GB Kingston 1333 ECC RAMs ($400)
• NV Quadro CX ($1500)
• Dual 8 port SAS RAID Controllers (about $750 each)
• 4x1TB Western Digital RAID Edition 3 HDDs in RAID5 ($175 each)
• 1x640GB Western Digital Blue ($65)
• Lite-On DVD-RW ($25)
• Supermicro 745TQ-R800B case with 8x hotswap bays + 800w PSU ($550)
• Windows Vista Ultimate x64 ($200)

So yea, let's just round that off to a $10,000 computer.

 

[thebeephaha]

Well that was lame, 3D mark of any variety freezes on the CPU test and closes out to Windows.

No benches for that rig I guess...

 

[Fitseries3]

odd. needs more vcore and vtt i bet.

you need some bigger heatsinks on that monster. she's gonna roast the internals

 

[thebeephaha]

odd. needs more vcore and vtt i bet.

you need some bigger heatsinks on that monster. she's gonna roast the internals

At how fast the fans are spinning, I doubt it.

I will see if there is any voltage adjustments.

 

[blackbird307]

I remember last year boards could hold single digit gb ram. And all of a sudden the support jumps in the hundreds. What the hell.