Any Quad-Processor Harpertown boards with a 16x PCI Express slot?

[Kaido]

Looking for a workstation board, needs -

16x PCI Express slot (1 is fine)
Support for Quad-Processor Harpertowns (45nm chips)

SuperMicro has one but it only has an 8x PCI Express slot

 

[NXIL]

Hey K,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...%2c736%3a16983&bop=And

5400 and 5100 series chipsets support the socket 771 45nm CPUs.

The 5000X series is being upgraded to include support for the 45nm CPUs too.

HTH

NXIL

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: NXIL
Hey K,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...%2c736%3a16983&bop=And

5400 and 5100 series chipsets support the socket 771 45nm CPUs.

The 5000X series is being upgraded to include support for the 45nm CPUs too.

HTH

NXIL

I meant Quad-Processor boards, I edited my OP to reflect that. So I'm looking for a workstation board that supports 4 x Quad Processors plus has a 16x PCI Express slot.

 

[NXIL]

Dear K,

wow, that is some serious CPU power....

According to Intel's web site, no quad quad (herein QQ) boards:

http://www.intel.com/products/...tm?iid=serv_body+board

Need 7300 chipset:

http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/7300/index.htm

Only 8X PCIe though, apparently, as you mentioned:

Serial I/O technology provides a direct connection between the MCH chipset and PCI Express component/adapters with bandwidth up to 4 GB/s on each PCI Express x8 interface. PCI Express offers higher bandwidth, lower latency and fewer I/O bottlenecks than PCI-X.

Wow, I just priced out a QQ Sun system: about $20,000 or so, by the time you put it together.

http://shop.sun.com/is-bin/INT...&ShowAllProducts=false

You know, for such a high end system, I think I would recommend a system integrator to put it together, then maybe add memory/hard drives/etc on your own--warranty/service/support on such a high end high strung beast would be good...

Would guess this is for video creation?

GL!

NXIL

 

[Sheninat0r]

Why do you need the full x16 bandwidth? It's not like any cards will actually use half of that, be it GeForce, Radeon, Quadro, FireGL, or even Tesla... but those aren't really video cards, are they...

 

[syadnom]

sorry for the bad news here but you really arent going to find a motherboard to do that. nothing on the market in component form right now. you will need to get some high-end/pricey integrator's product like a SUN X4450 which is going to start in the $14,000 range and climb like a Saturn V rocket.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Sheninat0r
Why do you need the full x16 bandwidth? It's not like any cards will actually use half of that, be it GeForce, Radeon, Quadro, FireGL, or even Tesla... but those aren't really video cards, are they...

Just for a Quadro 5600. Certain cards have a warning of sorts that say to only run it in a 16x PCI Express slot (electrically).

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: NXIL
Dear K,

wow, that is some serious CPU power....

According to Intel's web site, no quad quad (herein QQ) boards:

http://www.intel.com/products/...tm?iid=serv_body+board

Need 7300 chipset:

http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/7300/index.htm

Only 8X PCIe though, apparently, as you mentioned:

Serial I/O technology provides a direct connection between the MCH chipset and PCI Express component/adapters with bandwidth up to 4 GB/s on each PCI Express x8 interface. PCI Express offers higher bandwidth, lower latency and fewer I/O bottlenecks than PCI-X.

Wow, I just priced out a QQ Sun system: about $20,000 or so, by the time you put it together.

http://shop.sun.com/is-bin/INT...&ShowAllProducts=false

You know, for such a high end system, I think I would recommend a system integrator to put it together, then maybe add memory/hard drives/etc on your own--warranty/service/support on such a high end high strung beast would be good...

Would guess this is for video creation?

GL!

NXIL

Yeah it's for Video/CG (business use). The price is actually much lower than $20k...Supermicro has a Quad-proc board that supports Penryns along with an 8x PCI Express slot, so that's about $1300 for the board plus $1500 per chip. So roughly $6000 for four 3.2ghz Harpertowns and $7300 with the board. Not bad for 16 cores and 50ghz+ onboard! Ram varies the price as do hard drives, but everything else is pretty standard (extended ATX case, large power supply, DVD drive, etc.).

 

[NXIL]

Not bad for 16 cores and 50ghz+ onboard!

Not bad. Not bad at all....that is going to be cool.

Windows Server? Linux? Unix/Irix?

NXIL

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: NXIL

Not bad for 16 cores and 50ghz+ onboard!

Not bad. Not bad at all....that is going to be cool.

Windows Server? Linux? Unix/Irix?

NXIL

Video/CG rendering workstation