looking for dual socket 771 mobo with SLI

[hellpimp]

is there a dual xeon motherboard that supports clovertown CPUs and 2xGeFoce 8800 SLI ?

 

[Steve]

Check the usual suspects: Tyan, Supermicro, Iwill.

 

[NXIL]

Here are Newegg's dual 771 motherboards with two PCIx16 slots:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productco...72%2CN82E16813131170%2CN82E16813131152

However, note that the second PCI"x16" slots on most of these are 8X or 4x; also, no nVidia SLI, and, from what I can tell, no Crossfire on these. Only nVidia makes SLI capable chipsets, and from what I can tell, they do not make a socket/dual socket 771 version.

There are some dual socket F/AMD Opteron socket 1207 motherboards with SLI:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productco...38%2CN82E16813182114%2CN82E16813131140

This board looks good for SLI/dual Opterons:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16813131141

Intel Xeons are great, but, if you want SLI in a dual processor workstation motherboard, you may be limited to the Opteron option.

Lots of socket 775 SLI boards:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productco...11%2CN82E16813127022%2CN82E16813141002

Lots of AM2 SLI boards:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productco...04%2CN82E16813136020%2CN82E16813188016

Here is AMD's "4 x 4" program board--not sure what software you are running and if you need 4 cores, but this will do it, and also do SLI:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131146

The prices on the CPUs that go with it are not too bad:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi...343+1051727346&name=Socket+F+(1207+FX)

(I think those are them....I thought they only came in pairs, can't tell from the description if that is what they are....and, I can't find it on AMD's web site....)

4 x 4 motherboard review:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4963

Hi res image:

http://content.zdnet.com/2347-12554_22-38068-38069.html?seq=1

With the dual 8800 need you have, I would assume this is to be a gaming machine?

Depending on what software you are planning on running, a single socket quad core (looks like there are some nice ones coming soon) might work well for you too....

HTH,

NXIL

 

[hellpimp]

thank you for the info NXIL

I currently have
EVGA i680 mobo
cores2duo 6600
8GB RAM
2x EVGA Geforce 8800 GTX SLI

both my RAM and CPU get maxed out when I run all my work apps. together so I was gonna upgrade to dual quad core xeon and mobo that supports at least 16GB RAM while keeping my 8800 SLI in play.
But it seems like I`ll have to wait for such motherboard to come on the market.

I`d go for Opteron platform few months ago but now with Intel`s clovertown performance advantage I vote for XEON

 

[NXIL]

Hi HP,

that's some serious processing/crunching you are doing there--video?

Barcelona/AMD 4 core CPU may not catch up to Xeon, but it might get close:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2027656,00.asp

With two of these quad cores and an Nvidia chipset, SLI should work, I think....

Are you running XP/64 or Linux/64?

NXIL

 

[F1N3ST]

You could just use a QX6700 and drop it into your current mobo.

 

[hellpimp]

Originally posted by: F1N3ST
You could just use a QX6700 and drop it into your current mobo.

I could but I need more ram. Pretty much all SLI motherboards support 8GB RAM max.

 

[hellpimp]

Originally posted by: NXIL
Hi HP,

that's some serious processing/crunching you are doing there--video?

Barcelona/AMD 4 core CPU may not catch up to Xeon, but it might get close:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2027656,00.asp

With two of these quad cores and an Nvidia chipset, SLI should work, I think....

Are you running XP/64 or Linux/64?

NXIL

yeah I do lot of video editing, also have sageTV server running that feeds 4 TVs across the house. Not to mention I love running my games at max resolution on my 30" Dell which is why I want to keep my SLI config.

I`ll just wait couple months...I am sure there must be some dual xeon with SLI support coming soon