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Jun 23, 2007, 12:46 PM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
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dual processor mobos
hey guys, my house burnt down about a month ago with my xps 700 in it. i loved that computer so much it was nice, clean and fast, but im goin to be getting alot of money back from the insurance and i am going to build my own computer i think and wat i want to know is. i saved my 2.4 core2 duo outta my xps and the ram i dont think my 7950 gx2 is gonna work but my processor will and wat i want to know is if u guys can help me find a motherboard that i can put (2) core2 duos in it to have double the processor power!!! any help would be awesome thanks alot guys.
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Jun 24, 2007, 11:35 AM
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DH's Youngest Mod
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dual 775 mobos, they are server boards. pointless as they only allow single graphics cards and need special (and very expensive) RAM
no OCing capabilities.
quad core CPUs still would own them..... and can be OCed... then theres SLi/Crossfire
8 cores are kinda useless for the average user..... the monster Zardon posted was a 2x4 core setup with 3.0GHz Clovertown things...... costs about 10k for it....
also known as Intel V8
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Jun 24, 2007, 01:12 PM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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You can't use Core 2's in dual cpu configs; you will have to grab two Xenons for that(similar to AMD's X2 and Opteron). Your best bet would be to sell your core 2's and grab a Q6600 for about $500.
Sorry to hear about your house tho 
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Jun 24, 2007, 09:48 PM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
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thanks guys for the post and dipstick i appreciate the concern for my house thats cool of u to say that. the only other thing is maybe links for possibly a good combo of mobo and cpu preflibly a mobo that will work with my 2.4 core2 duo or those xenons that dipstick was talking about thanks guys 
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Jun 24, 2007, 10:29 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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you can run just the 1 cpu yeah.. and get another down the track?
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Jun 25, 2007, 10:06 AM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
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but wat mobo would support core 2 duos? i have no idea where to look
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Jun 25, 2007, 10:07 AM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
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i mean wat mobo would support dual core2 duos?
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Jun 25, 2007, 12:34 PM
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DH Team Leader
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Well the manufacturers website should tell you that. All the major players have C2D motherboards on market so you have a lot of boards to pick one. 
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Jun 25, 2007, 03:41 PM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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I looked over at newegg and all the dual socket Intel boards are Socket 771 so they wouldn't even work with your Core2. To be honest it's extremely expensive to run dual Intel cpu's, at least compared to an everyday board and a core 2 or even quad.
The best advice I can give is to pick up a nice single socket board, run your current 6600, and in a month or two when Intel is supposed to drop the quad prices pick up a Q6600(pretty much two of your 6600's stuck together).
I would presonally go with a board based on an Intel chipset like the 965, 975, or even better, the P35. The Asus P5B and P5K are two I can recommend as fantastic boards in both stability and performance.
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Jun 25, 2007, 07:38 PM
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DH's Youngest Mod
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GIGABYTE GA-P35-DQ6!!!!!!!!!!    
caution: it may frighten small animals and may make little kids cry.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128046
its designed alot better compared to ASUS's P35 boards it has none of the issues of the P5ks (higher heat, poor design, stuff on back inadequately cooled, SATA ports placed all wrong and the list goes on)
though its great to see that they finally ditched that crappy audio chip and turned the slot into an PCI-E x1
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Jun 26, 2007, 02:29 PM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
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thanks guys, great advice! i really appreciate that!!!!! 
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Jul 3, 2007, 02:00 PM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
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is the p35-dq6 sli?
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Jul 4, 2007, 01:50 AM
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DH's Youngest Mod
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nope, just subpar crossfire, but it is ALOT better than any 680i in terms of OCing power, there is almost no need for SLi or any other mult-GPU setup unless you have a 2560x1600 monitor.... Just get an 8800 card! the 7950GX2 is able to run on non SLI boards also, just so you know
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Jul 4, 2007, 02:14 PM
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Noise? What noise?
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Just to clarify things for anyone else who might be viewing these threads...
Core 2 Duo's and Core 2 Quads run on the LGA775 socket and can only be run with one physical chip and one chipset on the motherboard.
The Xeon series of chips based on the Core 2 microarchitecture runs on the LGA771 and can be run in single or multiple socketed motherboards. There are some server boards from ASUS that will work with the dual Xeon configuration (like Zardon's V8), but they require Fully Buffered (FB) DIMM modules which are expensive and hard to find.
For your purposes that Gigabyte motherboard or any consumer level 775 board would be the best bet because if you needed more CPU power you could go Quad Core (Q6600 springs to mind) later down the road. Besides, server boards aren't designed for gaming and it appears that you will be doing gaming.
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Jul 4, 2007, 02:24 PM
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Mars
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kris23
8 cores are kinda useless for the average user..... the monster Zardon posted was a 2x4 core setup with 3.0GHz Clovertown things...... costs about 10k for it....
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You can get a 2x4 core 3.0GHz Clovertown setup from Apple starting at around $4500. 
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Jul 5, 2007, 12:25 PM
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DH's Youngest Mod
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the Q6600 is looking tastier and tastier..... its just 475 bucks now!
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