a) the right equivalent card b) if you think you can soft mod the drivers yourself) the istanbul sadly doesn hold a candle to a xeon Nehalem quad core there are also xeon hexacores out ,the only dual cpu solutions i've seen in desktops is skulltrail but thats...

Can You Run a 2P Nehalem Xeon MB 1P?. I'm looking at building a new box to replace my dual Opteron 270. I'm looking at doing something like: Tyan S7025 1P Xeon 5520 In other words, run the Tyan with one processor until I can come up with the money to...

Building a Dual Nehalem Xeon Home PC - worth it?. Here's my question. I am looking to build the best video editing machine i can with the money i have. I would like to keep it under $1500 and i have a couple of questions. Strictly for monetary reasons i...

the 2.93GHz Nehalem Xeon because it will act as 8 cores and perform on par with the dual CPU system. Actually, both setups have a Nehalem - the choice is between a single Nehalem with 4 cores, 8 threads at 2.93, or the dual nehalems with 8 cores and 16 threads...

Dual (Nehalem) Xeon workstation <$2500. Hello, I'm trying to build a Dual Xeon system for use as a data analysis workstation. I do some graphics work, so I need a decent graphics card. But, the main need for the heavy-duty horsepower and RAM is my data...

General discussion AMD vs Intel, LGA775, Nehalem, etc. Here are some benchmarks from an i5-750. The set up is as follows: i5-750 2.55GHz 8MB L3 Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 4 x 2GB Corsair XMS3 1600C8 XFX GTX285 1GB SuperTalent UltraDrive ME Series 64GB 2.5"...