Dual P4 mobo

[James]

Are there any motherboards that support two P4 processors yet?

Ideally with 800FSB/Dual Channel memory, so that I can buy 2 x "2.4GHz (PG-800FSB) HT Intel Pentium® 4 CPU 512k Cache" which are around £120.

Obviously this would be a monster machine, but that's what I am looking to build.. something that can operate as a PVR/home-media-server/games/MS-Office machine with dual-display so that one person can watch TV/DVD/games while the other does homework/surfing.

Or would two separate PCs be a better option?

Cheers,
James

 

[markgun]

You'd need Xeons, and there aren't any 800MHz FSB Xeons out yet (I don't know if there ever will be). Also, there will never be a dual P4 motherboard, only dual Xeon boards. You could go for two 3.06 GHz P4 Xeons (533MHz FSB) with a dual board, but that would be ridiculously expensive for a home user.

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[ad_rach]

Probably cheaper and more practical just to build two systems.

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[Crashman]

The P4 doesn't support dual operation. The newer XEONS use the P4 core and have dual operation enabled.

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[HardWareBoss]

Isn't Asus working on a dual P4 board?

 

[Crashman]

I think you're refering to their new 875PE board for dual Xeon CPUs.

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[James]

So I could buy 2 x "2.4GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 Xeon™ 533FSB CPU 512K Cache (Prestonia)" @ £204.50 each, and a "Asus PCDL Deluxe Dual Xeon 533fsb+DDDR333+USB2+x8AGP" @ £211.50.

Then I just need memory, lotsa HD, graphics, sound, case, mouse, keyboard, TV tuner.

Hmm. Seems like a Dell-Factory-Outlet P4 may be a better option...

Thanks for everyone's input.

Cheers,
James

 

[Crashman]

Actually if you read Tom's tests, you'd probably find you'd be better off with a 3.0GHz P4. As for Dell...that's a trap.

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[HardWareBoss]

Maybe that was it. I'll have to start writing this stuff down. That's what happens when web surfing?

 

[HardWareBoss]

You have lots of money? Supermicro has a Quad Xeon board.

 

[James]

Really?

You mean to say a single 3.06Ghz P4 FSB800 outperforms http://www.asus.com/products/server/srv-mb/pc-dl/overview.htm ?

Yikes..

Cheers,
James

 

[Crashman]

I'd never say a processor will outperform a motherboard, that's like saying a motorcycle goes faster than a computer.

Yes, I'm saying a 3.0 (NOT 3.06) GHz P4 will outperform 2 2.4GHz XEONS in most user level applications. Tom's has plenty of benchmarks to prove that, you should try reading the site that host this forum instead of acting with incredulity towards it's members.

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[ad_rach]

This new p4 3.2 'Extreme Edition' with 2mb L3 cache might be ideal for you.Just depends how long you are willing to wait for one, although it will apparently be available in OEM form in 30+ days.

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[Phetar]

I know absolutely nothing about server boards and the like, but beyond server applications, what is the benefit of a Quad Xeon board (i.e. Tyan Thunder GC-HE)? I'm only an interested amateur at this, but it would seem that with PCI-X (the new 64 bit & 100MHz?), potential for obscene amounts of memory, SCSI, and four CPUs, it would perform rather well--yet all the benchmarks say a P4 3.2GHz 800FSB outdoes it? I only ask because I'm interested in building my own machine, and want to explore all the options. Money isn't an issue, and it'd mainly be used for gaming, home networking, basic computing, and internet, and stability is a key issue.
Thanks a lot...I know quad boards probably isn't the wisest choice, I just want to know the benefits of a quad xeon board.

 

[HardWareBoss]

You can build a nice server with that Mobo.

 

[sjonnie]

Simple. What does a server do? It serves lots of users. Thus you are going to need lots of processing bandwidth, the higher the number of users and the longer it takes to comlete each process thread the heavier the load, lots of memory to hold all the instructions for processing, very fast I/O to transfer the data between hard storage.

As a home user doesn't really ever use up the processing bandwidth of a dual system so 4-way would be total overkill.

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[HardWareBoss]

Just putting that in since he want's Dual P4. who knows what he's going to build.

 

[Phetar]

Nah, I don't want a dual P4, i was just curious to see if it had any tangible benefits for me...i don't know much about them