Dual CPU mobo recommendation

[stickyctrlkey]

Hello,
I've been a fan of Tyan for years now, and currently have a S2915 (dualie). Its time to upgrade, but I've been out of the loop for a while.

Are dual cpu mobos still better than single cpu (for development machine: IIS7, Visual Studio, Photoshop, SQL Server etc running)?

Can someone please recommend a mobo that I will definitely notice to be faster (just assume I install the same amount of RAM and CPU freq).

Thanks for your recommendation!

 

[NXIL]

Are dual cpu mobos still better than single cpu (for development machine: IIS7, Visual Studio, Photoshop, SQL Server etc running)?

Hi Stick,

first that S2915 mobo is still current:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=tyan_amd_2010&num=1

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813151096

You can put in two hexa-cores for a 12 core processing demon with 32 GB of memory.

Really, processing power is not your bottleneck, or at least I would not think so.

Hard drives.....bump those up.

Regardless, for most people, a good quad core with lots of ram on a quality mobo is plenty--dual CPU motherboards are getting to be less and less common.

As for the mobo making the machine faster, even with the same RAM and CPU: have looked at a lot of mobo tests, yes, one mobo might give you a 12,700 score, another a score of 12,680, same memory and CPU: a fraction of a percent. That is not where you want to look for better performance, at least IMO.

GL

NX

 

[wwswimming]

i like Tyan too. got 2 of them up on the wall, like pictures (haven't bought frames yet). an S2665 (Xeon) and an S2881 (Opteron), both about 2003-2004 vintage.

but the eVGA is the one that got my attention - release date about March 2010 ... i think.

 

[ViviTheMage]

I have one for sale if you're interested in a dual 1366 board:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2036585