Can i put two i7 on dual socket motherboard?

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atomicWAR
as far as I am aware no you cannot. looking at Intel's own page for both the i7 7700k and i7 6700K shows the max supported cpus is one.

https://ark.intel.com/products/88195/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_20-GHz
https://ark.intel.com/products/97129/Intel-Core-i7-7700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_50-GHz

Three may be a hack I am unaware of but it is clearly not officially supported. You would need a Xeon processor that supports multiple sockets to do as your asking.
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as far as I am aware no you cannot. looking at Intel's own page for both the i7 7700k and i7 6700K shows the max supported cpus is one.

https://ark.intel.com/products/88195/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_20-GHz
https://ark.intel.com/products/97129/Intel-Core-i7-7700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_50-GHz

Three may be a hack I am unaware of but it is clearly not officially supported. You would need a Xeon processor that supports multiple sockets to do as your asking.
 
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Nope.

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z9PED8_WS/specifications/

This is a Socket LGA 2011 motherboard (not the Socket LGA 2011-3, BTW, but the original LGA 2011). So, you would be looking at one of the Sandy Bridge-E or Ivy Bridge-E chips.

However, core i7 chips aren't even on the supported list:

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z9PED8_WS/HelpDesk_CPU/

That being said...if you can find two of those nasty E5-2687W v2 chips (8C/16T each, 3.4GHz base/3.6-4.0GHz boost), or 2 of those monster E5-2690 v2 (10C/20T, 3.0GHz base/3.3-3.6GHz boost) or E5-2697 v2 (12C/24T, 2.7GHz base/3.0-3.5GHz boost) CPUs, & max out your RAM (if I'm reading the specs correctly, you can have up to 64GB -- 32GB per CPU -- of non-ECC RAM, or up to 256GB/128GB per CPU of server-grade ECC RAM), you'll be sitting pretty for years to come.
 
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