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Dual Socket Motherboards, Syncing the CPU Cores Together?

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April 18, 2013 7:16:14 PM

I've been looking into making a sweet computer to do anything and everything I want it to do, from controlling a home media network to playing games, and a little Autodesk on the side. Looking into building a computer for this, which will be the first computer I'll have put together on my own, I ran into the dual socket motherboards and have been wondering exactly how they work.

To my knowledge a dual socket seems to just give you more cores and not actually increase the speed. I was wondering if it's possible to have the two processor's cores sync together. I mean that in the way that if I were to have two 3.5ghz quads, instead of having eight cores, make the data going to core0 also split with core5, theoretically making it a 7ghz quad core.

Not sure what that would involve, or even if it's possible. any help on the dual socket motherboards would be great. I've looked through a couple of the previous questions that have been asked but haven't found any great answers and most of them have been a couple years old.

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April 19, 2013 9:29:07 AM

Software uses the resources you have the way developers want it to, it's not possible for the consumer to change the way data interacts with hardware unless we ourselves have a say in the code.
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April 19, 2013 10:05:27 AM

Dual socket motherboards only exists for server CPUs. That basically means you are looking at a system that will cost at least in $1,800+ or so.
April 19, 2013 1:27:29 PM

jaguarskx said:
Dual socket motherboards only exists for server CPUs. That basically means you are looking at a system that will cost at least in $1,800+ or so.


Oh I know that they're a little more expensive, my question is regarding whether or not you can have two cores register as on and double the power.
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