Two P4 3.2 C's, but no motherboard, which one should I get?

[NOBEL]

I haven't opened them up yet, because I don't know if there is a dual cpu board capable of 800Mhz FSB.

I wanted to know if there is such a board, or should I return them for the 533 FSB variety (really don't want to), or are there new boards on the way.

Thanks!

 

[kamper]

A dual cpu socket478 board, what?
Have you ever seen such a thing at any fsb?
I haven't and I don't believe p4s are capable of being doubled up

 

[NOBEL]

Thanks for replying, I bought the two CPU's but didn't open em, because I wasn't sure there was a board on there for them.
I know I there are DUAL Xeon boards, but too pricey for the CPU's. For a program like Maya, is one 3.2 C processor good enough, for should I save up more and get 2 Xeon's.

I can return at least 1 of these 3.2's (it sure felt good holding them ) now, thanks again.

 

[MDE]

The P4s are NOT dual capable, only Xeons. I'd return one.

 

[jose]

Before you make a decision check out the Asus pp-dwl mobo (placer).
You could get 8gigs of pc2700 ecc & dual 2.8Xeons.

I'd check benchmarks before making a decision. Maya may have system configrations benchmarks.

Regards,
Jose

 

[stevennoland]

NOBEL, return one of the CPU's and get an Abit IC7-MAX3 mobo. And get some 400MHz Dual channel RAM (or faster). As far as I know, there are no dual proc mobo's for the P4 (not to mention 800MHz FSB support).