Dual Intel Xeon 5620 CPUs

I have acquired two Intel 5620 CPUs, just wanted some opinions on whether it was worth using one/both of them for a home build (or not!).

My home PC is an ageing Intel Gallatin EE 3.4GHz running Windows XP which is hardly used, in fact I tend to use a laptop with an Intel 7300 2Hgz C2D for gaming (mostly Sega's Football Manager series) because it's a lot quicker than the PC. I would assume that a single 5620 is going to be a much quicker CPU than either of these.

I'd be looking to run Windows 7 on it.


Thanks in advance

it depends on what games ?apps you are running in most cases i think one e5620 will do better . however in benchmarks using two would do better.

The SR-2 is a beautiful board though
And if you do intend to do encoding, then having 2 CPU's would be great.

But as you list above, the support for HTPX mobo's is quite limited.
And you are looking at paying quite a premium for getting those 2 xeons to use.

£350 for the mobo, then £150-200 for a suitable case.
You might even need a beefier psu to handle the 2 CPU's and you have to basically have twice the memory.

So sadly I would say that it's hardly worth it. But as an enthusiast i have to say that it would sure be a sweet rig

But the P182SE is a beautiful case though ;-)



I think I'll go down the route of getting a Westmare-compatible X58 board and hopefully getting 3.8-4.0GHz out of it, rather than a workstation board that only gives me 2x stock 2.4Ghz 5620s, since the SR-2 isn't really a viable option (I don't think, anyway!).


Thanks people