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Dual cpu motherboards
  • Going Bald
    Has anyone ever tried installing on a dual cpu motherboard to replicate the dual Nehalem MacPro (2009 model)? From everything I have seen on the spec for that Mac mobo, it should be possible with an dual LGA 1366 socket and 5520 chipset like the server boards from SuperMicro or boards from ASUS. You would probably have to use Xeon processors instead of Core i5,i7, but it would be a screaming machine.
  • Burger
    I was wondering that the other day. If only Gigabyte did a board I think we'd soon have something going.

    Used that dual Nehalem in the Apple store last year and activity monitor gives you 16 meters on the CPU display. Unbelievable!
  • XLR
    The new Dual Mac Pro's suppose to give you 24 CPU meters, 6 cores 12 threads X2.
  • Going Bald
    [quote="XLR"]The new Dual Mac Pro's suppose to give you 24 CPU meters, 6 cores 12 threads X2.

    Yeah, but the cost is high for those 2 extra cores. The base 4-core MacPro has a E5620 2.4GHz processor (retail USD$387.00).
    To upgrade to a 6-core 3.33 GHz processor, Apple wants an ADDITIONAL USD$1200.00 for a total cost of $1587.00. Retail for the 3.3GHz W5680 Xeon processor is $1669.00 at neweggbusiness.com - so Apple evidently must get some kind of discount.
    I did a little googling for comparisons between the 4- & 6-core processors and while the 6-core blows the 4-core out of the water in all the high multi-threading use benchmarks, it has only a 5-10% performance increase over the Core i7 975 on single thread to 4 thread processing. For a casual desktop user (web browsing, email, etc.) the bang is not worth the buck imo. Even for heavy gamers, they would probably want to consider closely if 6-core is worth it since they probably already have the i975. The new 6-core Core i7 980x on the other hand is only (lol) $999.00 and I would bet a lot of gamers would say "Great! I'll buy it!" anyway just for bragging rights if for nothing else.
  • Burger
    I'm not a big gamer but generally speaking the gamers know that even a quadcore won't be much good to them as the code is not optimised that way. They put all the money into triple SLI GPU systems and need 1250W PSU's to deal with it but they're not big on cores. A gamer would take a 3GHZ core2duo over a 2.6Ghz core2quad for example.

    But 24 cores! I would love to see it!! Don't know what I'd really do with it but you know . . . It's cool.
  • Going Bald
    [quote="Burger"]I'm not a big gamer but generally speaking the gamers know that even a quadcore won't be much good to them as the code is not optimised that way. They put all the money into triple SLI GPU systems and need 1250W PSU's to deal with it but they're not big on cores. A gamer would take a 3GHZ core2duo over a 2.6Ghz core2quad for example.

    But 24 cores! I would love to see it!! Don't know what I'd really do with it but you know . . . It's cool.

    Yeah, but would you ever be able to see ALL of them in use? I ripped Star Trek Dom and Avatar with Handbrake and it didn't even max out the 8 cores of my i920! Unless you do photo or movie editing as a money making project, I just don't see that it would be worth anything but bragging rights - "Hey, everybody, look at my 24 core system! It's maxed out at 48 GB of RAM! Ain't that cool??!!!" lol
  • XLR
    Gamers definitely won't need a dual Xeon setup, even if they play on 30' displays in full resolution.
    This is more suited for professional audio/video editing or 3D animation with Quadro FX or Fire GL.
  • Burger
    "Hey, everybody, look at my 24 core system! It's maxed out at 48 GB of RAM! Ain't that cool??!!!" lol

    Heh heh, with 48Gb RAM the last thing it would be is cool :lol: :lol: :lol:
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