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im not expert at building PCs so forgive me for the possibly stupid question

i heard some time ago, before AMD released a quad core processor they got around this by releasing a motherboard which could hold 2 processors at once. ie 2 X dual core processors in essance making it a quad core.

now what i would like to know is are there any motherboards out there that could hold 2 (or more) AMD quad cores.

and before someone says it YES i do need that much power it would save me a fortune in render times for my work (CGI Artist :) )


thanks all

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I'm not sure about AMD offerings but you have to purchase server chips

you would be looking at a server/workstation motherboard
and 2 xeon chips for an intel offering.
normally they support upto 24gig or so of ECC memory also.

if you dont have a budget go intel.

I'm sure someone will chime in with AMD's offering(s) soon

Reply to rand_79

Dual processors were not uncommon a few years ago, not much need for them anymore, in the desktop arena anyway. Servers can and do run multiple processors.
Here for instance is a board that supports 4 six core Opterons, for a total of 24 processor cores.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813151205

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For normal consumer/gaming PCs they are not common (if any, since most games/programs don't have use for them) though once you jump into the server area tons do. Though prices jump quite a bit as well.

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dave_c wrote :

now what i would like to know is are there any motherboards out there that could hold 2 (or more) AMD quad cores.

Keep in mind that it's not just the motherboard - the CPU itself also has to support multiple chips in the system. For example, AMD's Opteron CPUs include multiprocessor support. In the Intel world only certain Xeon models support multiprocessing.

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jitpublisher wrote :

Dual processors were not uncommon a few years ago, not much need for them anymore, in the desktop arena anyway. Servers can and do run multiple processors.
Here for instance is a board that supports 4 six core Opterons, for a total of 24 processor cores.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813151205



$850 for a motherboard, and it has only two USB 2.0 ports!? This board has four USB ports, which is twice as many as that other piece of crap, and it only costs $42. Am I missing something here?







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Xeon for intel, Opteron for AMD

Motherboards for AMD...
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processor [...] 1229954912

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You had me confused there for a second angry_ducky, when I first read your post I missed the 'I kid' part :lol:

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EXT64 wrote :

You had me confused there for a second angry_ducky, when I first read your post I missed the 'I kid' part :lol:



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Reply to angry_ducky

for amd opteron

1xxx series 1 opteron
2xxx series 2 opteron (you can get a opteron-quad barcelona for 150 $)
8xxx series 8 opteron (but this is not cheeper)

I have a Asus kfn5-d (atx format) with two opteron 2212 with a SLI.

Reply to ccrafael

angry_ducky wrote :

$850 for a motherboard, and it has only two USB 2.0 ports!? This board has four USB ports, which is twice as many as that other piece of crap, and it only costs $42. Am I missing something here?







I kid, I kid...



That's only $10.50 per port! What a deal!

Reply to jitpublisher

Such multisocket boards used to be servers few years ago, meaning that they didn't even have a slot for a graphics card - only the graphics processor integrated in the Northbridge could be used.

Has this improved?

Also, check that your OS licence allows multiple sockets. This may become an expensive game.

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