I got ahold of a couple xeon 3.2Ghz/2MB/800FSB Quad core processers. I would love to build my dream machine around these chips. My first question is, is this a worth while endever. I know i will need a server board, case ect. and it will not be cheap but i've made my peace with that. Im more than happy with the speed of the chips but im not so sher about the 2mb cashe and 800MHz front side bus. I know the standard now is 4MB and 1333 FSB. This will be mainly a gaming computer and also run a home network eg. virtual machines around my home. If the interlacing is not good enough for newer games coming out than this is probebly not worth it. In my opinion these chips are unreal and i cant wait to get them fired up but I have never worked with multi core systems so I have to ask the questions.
My bigest problem is trying to find a good mainboard to run the chips. They are hard to find as the chip footprint is not used anymore. I want to put 4 Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black 7200rpm SATA II w/ 32MB Cache Running a RAID 10 format. I would also like to run the OS off a 10000 RPM SCSI drive that I am currently using, but I have no problem cutting this out if I have to.
I really Really hope I dont need registered RAM. If there is no other option I may submitt but the last thing I want to do is purchice 4 more Gigs of expencive RAM that runs slower than standard RAM.
For now i'm not going to stress about the vidio card. I have an old PCIE nVidia quatro fx which I know is no good for games, but it will get me going. Still i'd be happy for any sugestions on vidio cards as I dont realy know what to look for.
If you guys could find me a motherboard and clear any douts about these kick a*s chips that would rock my world.
My bigest problem is trying to find a good mainboard to run the chips. They are hard to find as the chip footprint is not used anymore. I want to put 4 Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black 7200rpm SATA II w/ 32MB Cache Running a RAID 10 format. I would also like to run the OS off a 10000 RPM SCSI drive that I am currently using, but I have no problem cutting this out if I have to.
I really Really hope I dont need registered RAM. If there is no other option I may submitt but the last thing I want to do is purchice 4 more Gigs of expencive RAM that runs slower than standard RAM.
For now i'm not going to stress about the vidio card. I have an old PCIE nVidia quatro fx which I know is no good for games, but it will get me going. Still i'd be happy for any sugestions on vidio cards as I dont realy know what to look for.
If you guys could find me a motherboard and clear any douts about these kick a*s chips that would rock my world.