ATX-sized boards that take Socket 771

[wwswimming]

... why not an ATX or micro-ATX board ?

i suspect in 2008 i'll upgrade to a quad core, and
right now the best one for me is the 80 watt
Harpertown 2.33 GHz.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819117149

the only thing is, they're only available for
EATX size boards.

Question #1
is that 80 watt number for the Harpertown
misleading - do they end up using more
energy for the memory ? does the 95 watt
Q6600 with DDR2 use less electricity than the
Harpertown with the ECC RAM ?

Question #2
is there a Xeon similar to the 80 watt
Harpertown that is socket 775 ?

i looked a few times, haven't seen one.

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: wwswimming

Question #1
is that 80 watt number for the Harpertown
misleading - do they end up using more
energy for the memory ? does the 95 watt
Q6600 with DDR2 use less electricity than the
Harpertown with the ECC RAM ?

Harpertown is 45 nm, the Q6600 is 65 nm. This is why they have different power needs. I don't have any numbers on hand, but yes the server will burn extra power for the memory.

Question #2
is there a Xeon similar to the 80 watt
Harpertown that is socket 775 ?

If Intel decides to make some Yorkfield Xeons then there will be. Right now Yorkfield exists only in "Extreme" parts. Yorkfield, like Harpertown, is a 45 nm "Penryn" part.

 

[hans007]

i don tthink they make 771 boards in ATX since, ATX probably would be single socket. there are a few dual boards that probably could fit in an ATX case but they are $300 and have maybe 1 x16 slot that is electrically x8.

for $300 plus the added cost of fb-dimms etc, if you really had to have a penryn you almost would be better off just getting a extreme edition money wise.

and using a 771 xeon on a single socket board seems like a waste since there is always the xeon 3000 serise or just a normal core 2 consumer version

 

[NXIL]

Supermicro makes 5:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...tyCodeValue=757%3A7618

The 5000X chipset is the one you would want:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...2101%2CN82E16813182116

Each about $400.

I believe it has a real PCIe16X slot.

HTH

NXIL

Edit: and, I just looked at the original post, and Hans' reply: Hans is right. There will be an equivalent socket 775 80W quad with the high level of cache you want in 2008. No need to get a socket 771 board. By the time you get server memory, server power supply i.e. big, etc: going to be a lot better to get an ATX socket 775 system. HTH