I am a noob at building computers, so I am pretty sure my question is silly...

[Art Vandelay]

For example are there mobos that accept 2 Intel E6600 CPUs? Will it have a benefit?

I am a total noob at this... sorry

 

[moosey]

I know that there are MBs like that for different sockets, but none I know of for mainstream Core2Duo boards. I don't think it'd make a difference for the average person anyway as the CPU has 2 cores anyway. For the price, if it existed, it'd probably make more sense to get a QuadCore CPU anyway.

 

[Art Vandelay]

Originally posted by: moosey
I know that there are MBs like that for different sockets, but none I know of for mainstream Core2Duo boards. I don't think it'd make a difference for the average person anyway as the CPU has 2 cores anyway. For the price, if it existed, it'd probably make more sense to get a QuadCore CPU anyway.

Thanks for the response

 

[Tyhr]

What above said is true.
Socket 771 for example has 2 physical processor slots. Put a quad core processor in each of those, and you have 8 cores (cpu's). But they are more $$$ and use different RAM, etc.

But mainstream Core2Duo runs on 775 - and are single socket only.

There are situations where multiple cores provides significant speed increases.
BUT I say a good rule of thumb is "if you cannot clearly answer if your applications fully utilize every single core - then you don't need to worry about getting multiple cores above the standard 2 in Core2Duo.)

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Many server motherboards have 2 cpu sockets but they are much more expensive and require

1. ECC registered Ram (more expensive)
2. specific CPU's made to work in multi socket boards (more expensive)
3. seperate ram for each CPU

You can't just stick any old processor in a dual socket board

 

[tcsenter]

No LGA775 processors are SMP enabled. You'd have to go with a server board with a server processor. e.g. Intel Xeon