Dual Core i7 980X

[frisbeetarian]

Hey all, know with the advent of the 980X, ive been planning to build a computer that will be used to test shared memory parallel code using mpi. I wanted to know if the 980Xs have the QPIs so i can rig up two of them on a dual socket motherboard. Thus bringing me a total of 12 cores and 24 threads.
Thank you.

 

[obsidian86]

there is not a single I7 on this green earth that can be used in a dual cpu system what you are looking for is a dual socket 1366 intel xeon

 

[frisbeetarian]

Funny though, i read a while ago that they released a dual socket motherboard that is not compatible with Xeon processors.

 

[obsidian86]

skulltrail was named as core2 quads but they were still xeons

the 6 core xeon chips are based on the westmere cores google it if you like

 

[frisbeetarian]

Thank you for pointing that out. Would you happen to know which vendor sells the Xeon 5600's individually?

 

[daship]

http://www.evga.com/articles/00537/

Your looking at spending $3000 + for a decent setup.