no i am not mad, i want to build a dual 754 cpu (amd 64 3400+'s)
these will be water cooled, to keep nse down in my room.
with 1.5gb ram, dual 60gb sata, not in raid sets.
i was wondering what mother board manufacturer makes dual cpu motherboards, and where can i get one?
tnx alot,
Igloo
Unless someone has seen otherwise, I don't think Athlon 64 - 754 supports SMP. For that, you need to go to Opteron or Athlon 64-FX, which means Socket 940 and an appreciable boost in the price of the CPUs.
god dang :(
thats expensive :o and really too much power for what i want to use it for.....
o well, ill get a amd 3800 with 1.5gb ram, and 2x 60gb sats drives, and make myself a nice game system, and use this pc as a server, should work ok, just water cool both systems, and quiet running :)
Igloo,
I built a 64 3400+ system last spring and love it. It's under "poster's hammer".
A few things I researched. The 64 has an onboard memory controller that when used with a low latency ram is on par with the FX-51's off board dual channel controller. If you do build an 64 system get the lowest latency ram you can. At the time I built my system it was +-5% of a FX system that was 1500.00(us) more at STOCK values. In my opinion Intel has nothing to comapre to the 64's perfomance, even if you wanted to spend the extra money.
I have 2 Hitachi 80gig sata HDs in raid 0 that when benched are just as fast as the raptor. Don't know why, my MoBo or the HDs themselves, but they kick arss and have been up almost a year. Oh, and they cost 1/2 of a raptor. They are by far the biggest "in your face" part of my system.
I am completely out of date when it comes to video card standards these days. I understand PCI express cards are faster but the question remains if it is the newer cards or the bus technology. Don't know. I have a 9800XT AGP that has not taken anything but the highest settings on all of my games, but would like think that there is a better card for the money these days.
The final bit I would offer comes right from these boards and the great people here. Get a 500W+ power supply and get a quality one.
Good Luck!
the AMD FX series of processers have the memory controller on die aswell and it works dual channel as well.