Any Dual Socket Intel 775 Boards?

[zabrou44]

My buddy is looking for a Maya workhorse and I'm wondering if there are any dual socket Intel boards out? Something he could throw a couple Conroe's in and hopefully have quadcore support for the future. Any suggestions?

 

[Elfear]

^^ Ok that was really weird. I just posted that but it showed up under some other guys username. Twilight Zone or something.

 

[keeleysam]

775 and Conroe are single socket only.

If he wants dual Core 2, he will have to go Woodcrest.

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
775 and Conroe are single socket only.

If he wants dual Core 2, he will have to go Woodcrest.

Ah, thanks. I guess I'll rephrase the question to "Any dual socket Woodcrest boards out?"

 

[lopri]

There surely are dual-socket Woodcrest boards but last time I checked they start around $400 and go up from there.
On a side note, there was a news about upcoming LGA775 Xeons. (Just like Socket 939 Opterons)

 

[lopri]

P.S. Make sure you change your password. I believe AT's server has been compromised.

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: lopri
There surely are dual-socket Woodcrest boards but last time I checked they start around $400 and go up from there.
On a side note, there was a news about upcoming LGA775 Xeons. (Just like Socket 939 Opterons)

Hmm. He's looking to build in the next month or so. He runs a graphic design business out of his home so money isn't really of concern with this build as he can make it a tax deduction. Here are the two choices he has right now:

1) Buy a good single-processor board and use a Conroe for moment and oc the heck out of it. Than when Kentsfield is released he could do the same with it.

2) Buy a dual processor board and run a pair of Woodcrest chips until Clovertown arrives and than a pair of those monsters. AFAIK the dual socket boards lack overclocking features so he would be limited that way. It's such a shame too since these C2D's are awesome overclockers. Although, 8 cores@stock > 4 cores@+50% oc when it comes to Maya.

Originally posted by: lopri
P.S. Make sure you change your password. I believe AT's server has been compromised.

Thanks for the heads up lopri.

 

[Elfear]

Bump.

 

[ND40oz]

Get the Supermicro 5000x board, take your pick with or without onboard SCSI. Dual woodcrests are nice, I'm posting from one now.

 

[vailr]

The Mac Pro uses 2 dual core Xeon CPU's. The least expensive Intel Mac Pro model is ~$2,500.
Anandtech had some recent articles about the Mac Pro, including being able to also run the (yet unreleased) 4 core CPU's.
Besides Mac OSX, WindowsXP will also run on the Mac Pro, but requires burning your own startup disc with the necessary HD controller drivers.
Check the Anandtech article for further info.
Price wise, the Mac Pro is very competetive with similar Dell branded systems.

 

[ND40oz]

Originally posted by: vailr
The Mac Pro uses 2 dual core Xeon CPU's. The least expensive Intel Mac Pro model is ~$2,500.
Anandtech had some recent articles about the Mac Pro, including being able to also run the (yet unreleased) 4 core CPU's.
Besides Mac OSX, WindowsXP will also run on the Mac Pro, but requires burning your own startup disc with the necessary HD controller drivers.
Check the Anandtech article for further info.
Price wise, the Mac Pro is very competetive with similar Dell branded systems.

The Mac Pro is competitive or has even better pricing in most low to midrange cases. Dell doesn't start to gain back ground until you go high end, you just can't option out the mac pro from apple like you can a 690. You'll also see the price of the mac jump considerably once you throw some stuff in and it will eventually cost more then the Dell once you have them both optioned out, especially with ram. Also, Dell offers SLI, apple doesn't.

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: ND40oz
Get the Supermicro 5000x board, take your pick with or without onboard SCSI. Dual woodcrests are nice, I'm posting from one now.

Do you know the differences bewteen the 5000P, 5000X, etc. My buddy just needs a barebones motherboard with dual sockets and hopefully Clovertown compatability. Looks like he'll be looking for a case that will fit the ATX-Ext standard too.

 

[ND40oz]

Originally posted by: Elfear

Do you know the differences bewteen the 5000P, 5000X, etc. My buddy just needs a barebones motherboard with dual sockets and hopefully Clovertown compatability. Looks like he'll be looking for a case that will fit the ATX-Ext standard too.

The 5000X is the workstation chipset for Dempsey and Woodcrest. Everyone is saying Clovertown is plug and play but until it's actually released, take it with a grain of salt.

All of the other 5000 series chipsets are for the server side, so it's best to go 5000X if this is truely going to be a workstation. You generally have an x16 PCIE slot with 5000X, while most of the other 5000P and 5000V chipsets are limited to x8 or x4 PCIE slots on the board and come with some form of onboard graphics.

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: ND40oz

Originally posted by: Elfear

Do you know the differences bewteen the 5000P, 5000X, etc. My buddy just needs a barebones motherboard with dual sockets and hopefully Clovertown compatability. Looks like he'll be looking for a case that will fit the ATX-Ext standard too.

The 5000X is the workstation chipset for Dempsey and Woodcrest. Everyone is saying Clovertown is plug and play but until it's actually released, take it with a grain of salt.

All of the other 5000 series chipsets are for the server side, so it's best to go 5000X if this is truely going to be a workstation. You generally have an x16 PCIE slot with 5000X, while most of the other 5000P and 5000V chipsets are limited to x8 or x4 PCIE slots on the board and come with some form of onboard graphics.

Awesome. Thanks for the info.