Two Chips Instead Of One?

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nightcarrier

nightcarrier

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I'm a newbie planning my first custom build. Would two "good quality" chips say
two i7-3770S work better or worse than one expensive super chip like a i7 3960X?
Are there motherboards that would support two chips? Or is this the wrong approach? I want a graphics intensive machine.
 
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As was mentioned, you need a Xeon (or Opteron) but not just any Xeon, it has to be a Xeon e5 or e7 series with a 2000 series model number or above. It gets really expensive really fast as not only are the CPUs much more pricy, but you need special motherboards and Registered/ECC RAM.

Depending on the apps, all those CPU/cores may not actually make a huge difference.
 
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