LiengLiengZA
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...What does AMD have in equivalent and will we perhaps see mobos from both parties that support
dual 6 or 8 core CPU's in the future?
dual 6 or 8 core CPU's in the future?
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AMD have dual and quad socket server stuff. Nothing really like Skulltrail though. However I think most consumers are better off with single socket motherboards, you really see a huge benefit going from 4 cores to 8? For most applications, no.
Of course if you're rendering 3D it's brilliant, but for general usage - nah. All those FB-dimms and stuff.
Of course if you're rendering 3D it's brilliant, but for general usage - nah. All those FB-dimms and stuff.
Cadavre777
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Why limit yourself to 12 or 16 cores when you can go all out and have 24?
chickenbeef
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Dooooood....skulltrail is old and outdated now. http://www.evga.com/articles/00537/ has been out for a while now
LiengLiengZA
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That's insane!You think AMD can come to the party with something simillar?
LiengLiengZA
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If you live in the stone age it's not that bad..
Don't know about AMD, but Intel does have dual Socket workstation boards (basically server boards with sound and without graphics). http://www.intel.com/Products/Workstation/Motherboards/S5520SC/S5520SC-overview.htm
The skulltrail was essentially a server/workstation board (desktop BIOS, but server northbridge -- 5400) that used Xeon 54xx chips. With Nahelem, the northbridge is basically no longer and instead is mostly just a cpu, QPI & PCIe bridge. Upside of the new workstation boards is 6 channel memory (1333 DDR3; can be unregistered and non-ecc but then not 2 DIMM per channel) when using 2 CPU (skulltrail was 4 channel FBDIMM DDR2 @ 800 = slow and very expensive).
The skulltrail was essentially a server/workstation board (desktop BIOS, but server northbridge -- 5400) that used Xeon 54xx chips. With Nahelem, the northbridge is basically no longer and instead is mostly just a cpu, QPI & PCIe bridge. Upside of the new workstation boards is 6 channel memory (1333 DDR3; can be unregistered and non-ecc but then not 2 DIMM per channel) when using 2 CPU (skulltrail was 4 channel FBDIMM DDR2 @ 800 = slow and very expensive).
Archer
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AMD Opteron 6000 series boards have support for up to four CPUs with 12 cores each for a total of 48 CPU cores on a single board. I'm sure Intel has similar boards. Though very very few individuals would benefit from such systems, hence it remains in the server area of things.