Anyone thinking about getting the quadfx(4x4)

[1Tanker]

Why the fascination with 2 sockets?

It's a need not fascination. I do dev work and use VMs. Having two sockets means twice as many VMs and VS 2005 instances. Some people need SLI, I need dual sockets.You need dual lobotomy's.

 

[dasickninja]

Meh, what ever happened to taking it easy on Baron?

 

[dasickninja]

To easy ain't it. 😛

 

[1Tanker]

To easy ain't it. 😛

Sorry, i started it...I'm a Baaaddd boy. 😳

 

[BaronMatrix]

The more i read about Quadfx, the more i get it, the ability to megatask, and haveing two cpu sockets to upgrade to dual quad core down the line it a good thing. i personnaly still wouldnt purchase Quadfx, but im not a power user liie the people its aimed at. I think itll be cool though.

Though i's not popular in the face of C2Q, I WILL be getting a two socket system. Even if the mobo is $400. I will probably wait until the low end 8800s come out cause $450+ for a GPU is too much. Even if it's faster than SLI and XFire.

For my dev work, it will be a dream come true.

FX70
7200.10
8800
4GB RAM

From what I'm seeing they will only be in systems first, so I'll probably get the barebones and add-on. I figure I can get what I want for about $2500. That's abotu what I paid for a 4400+ system last year.

That will be a hell of an upgrade.How can you(seriously) say those two sentances in the same post. They contradict each other. $450 for a high-end Graphics Card is not new/hard to swallow, but $400 or more
for a DT motherboard is pretty much unchartered territory, and makes me think.......Bend Over. :?


The ASUS SLI board for C2Q is $400. The video card will not be in use as much as the mobo. I don't play games that much. That mobo will also support quad core chips.

All in all I think I can get an FX70 system for around $2500-$3000. It won't have RAID or SLI.

 

[BaronMatrix]

Meh, what ever happened to taking it easy on Baron?

I don't think I need defense. Have at thee. BTW, give Jack 5 stars. I would but he makes me sick.
8O

 

[sailer]

I'm iffy about it. It seems kinda stop gap. I'll buy it just to test it out.

Having read through 2 pages of posts, I'll keep it simple. I'm also thinking about the AMD 4x4 setup and using the FX74 cpu, but I want to read the benchmarks before getting too excited about it. As you day, I'm iffy about it.

My 939 works OK for most things, but is showing its age and is slowing in some things. The next year, with Vista, games requiring DX10, etc gives me reason to build another machine. I just gotta figure out what seems best at the time I build. If Am3 comes along and is better or Intel comes out with something better, fine with me, I'll go that route.

 

[ElMoIsEviL]

Two chips on a board is innovation?

For the desktop it is. It was done once before around 10 years ago. Removing the server necessities definitely is. Everyone knows ECC is slower and more expensive and you don't need PCI-X to play FEAR.

Not really.. Asus have been releasing Desktop/Workstation grade Dual Xeon boards (Asus’s PC-DL comes to mind although using Xeon processors... but also we had the Tyan Pentium 2/III Dual Slot motherboards) for some time now. It's not at all an innovation... it's a knee jerk reaction to try to stem Intel's technological lead.

 

[orsino]

I'm iffy about it. It seems kinda stop gap. I'll buy it just to test it out.

Ninja, nothing personal, but I hope you don't mind me asking how the freakin' &#$% you as such a young man can afford to buy damn near every new computer system monthly! If you have a trust account or a rich gf then more power to ya. But if you work for a living like I do, I'd love to find out what you do and ask if there's room in your company for an old shrewd weasel like myself! :lol:

And BTW, if you are ever worrying about what to do with all those state-of-the-art systems after you're finished playing with them for three weeks, I'd be more than happy to pay for the shipping to my address! 😀

Now I think I'll go back to staring at my stack of bills and deciding if I'm going to pay the electric or the gas bill this month!

 

[dasickninja]

Errr... independently wealthy? I'll start a company soon enough, and pay the gas bill. you can use candles. 😛

 

[orsino]

Errr... independently wealthy? I'll start a company soon enough, and pay the gas bill. you can use candles. 😛

Yeah, I figured you'd want me to choose gas over electric so that I couldn't post anymore! :lol:

P.S. My resume is in the mail. 😀

 

[1Tanker]

Errr... independently wealthy? I'll start a company soon enough, and pay the gas bill. you can use candles. 😛

Yeah, I figured you'd want me to choose gas over electric so that I couldn't post anymore! :lol:

P.S. My resume is in the mail. 😀Silver Spoon.....Nuff said. :lol:

 

[dasickninja]

Not silver, platinum. 😛

 

[orsino]

I had a silver spoon once. Hocked it. :lol:

 

[1Tanker]

I had a silver spoon once. Hocked it. :lol:

I'm pretty sure i was born with a plastic spoon.

 

[GiDDY_SOUL]

4x4 is a very high end.. expensive platform & highly upgradeable. 8)

I wish I had the money to buy this or upgrade :?

Come on guys... U can plug-in 2 Quad Core K8L later. Intel may introduce 8 core in late 2007 or early 2008. So I u want 8 cores by Q2 of 2007 then 4x4 is the way to go.

4 PCI-Express slots! Any gamer would want to have that.
No news of any Intel mobos having 4 PCI-Express. So if u want immense Grafix power then 4x4 is the way to go.

To make a system like this u need $x$!

I see no way a Core2 Quad beating this is in Games if the 4x4 use 4 grafix Cards.

 

[Remonster]

I had a silver spoon once. Hocked it. :lol:

I'm pretty sure i was born with a plastic spoon.

at least you got a spoon, all i got was a oddly colored spork

 

[orsino]

Hey, Ninja! I finally found a photo of you!!! :lol:

 

[orsino]

To make a system like this u need $x$!

I see no way a Core2 Quad beating this is in Games if the 4x4 use 4 grafix Cards.

Two FX CPUS: $1500
4 DX10 Cards: $2000
Mobo: $400

You're almost at four grand and you don't have any RAM or HDs yet. If I gotta spend this type of cash to have fun, it's gonna have long blonde hair and a rack! :lol:

 

[niz]

Why the fascination with 2 sockets?

It's a need not fascination. I do dev work and use VMs. Having two sockets means twice as many VMs and VS 2005 instances. Some people need SLI, I need dual sockets.

Huh? thats bullcrap. The number of VM instances you can have isn't tied to how many physical cpu sockets you have. Thats what the V in VM stands for... Virtual.

Even on a single cpu system you could have 999 concurrent VMs each running their own VS2005 instance if you want. The performance would likely suck but you could do it.

 

[GiDDY_SOUL]

2 FX cpus will cost $1500?

I saw the price starting from $600(2.6Ghz processor) and ending at $1000.

 

[gOJDO]

2 FX cpus will cost $1500?

I saw the price starting from $600(2.6Ghz processor) and ending at $1000.

2 X $600 = $1200
2 X $1000 = $2000

 

[enforcer22]

Well ill defanitly be getting a 4x4 system doubt ill get the first ones coming out since software isnt up to par when it comes to multi cpu systems. As for the quad sli i dont see any point at all. Dual is ok i guess if more games actualy could use it but 4 is i dont know how to even put it.

Why does everyone think 4x4 is amd rushing out to get a new platform to kill the core2? has anyone actualy thought about this? seriously maybe the core2 is why its coming out now but with or with out core2 this platform was coming. Parallism was coming AMD was just trying to get more into a system. 8 cores from dual sockets 16 cores later. For now that really doesnt mean ANYthing other then windows and allocate applications and even a load but what really takes any advantage of a 4 core cpu let alone a dual core right now.

Will i get it? um yeah of course. will i get quad SLI even thinking of the most extreem cases i cant think of a place for quad csli/xfire so no. I may perhaps get a dual video option considering i been playing a game thats been coded for it and i do play in max settings at 1920x1200 and up.


Giddy your getting way ahead of your self there. hardly anything benafits from SLI let alone a dual SLI setup its doubtfull your going to see anything take much advantage of it. Hell xfire setups are beating quad sli right now just showing games dont care. When it comes to games the more cores approche right now isnt going to do alot either.

However since multi core computers and 64 bit computers have been out for some time now along with sli/xfire i have hopes software makers will sart optimising up and coming software and those barriers will be gone.


So my next system will be a 4x4 system with xfire and 4 gigs of ram. Im hoping to add scsi to that also 😉 anyways im hoping by that time (aprox 6 months from now since i just built a computer not to long ago) that software and games i want to play will take advantage of at least half that power.

Well that was my two cents 😛

 

[Minerva]

Jeez!

I had to take a loan at the bank to be able to afford my pc a year ago. and added bits as I went along... I would have to sell my car to be able to afford the 4x4.

must be nice with technology being a lot cheaper in the states, and having a decent pay cheque too 😳

 

[still_life]

How much do you get for a kidney....