It's looks like I definitely cannot use these chips in this board. >From what I can see, I would be better off sending the chips and the board back and building an i9 system. The i9 seems to be a much faster chip and it comes with 6 true cores (or 12 cores if you count hyper threading.) This 6 core system would clearly outperform the octal I wanted to build.
Don I think there is more bang for the buck getting an i9 as opposed to exchanging these chips. On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Gian-Carlo Pascutto <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 14 June 2010 14:25:29 Don Dailey wrote: > > > I'm putting it together on a budget - shopping for the best prices and > > using parts from an older computer. For about $1100 I purchased a dual > > socket motherboard, 2 i7-920 chips, 12 gig DDR3 memory and 2 cpu > > coolers. > > Can you really put i7-920's in SMP? I think you need the much more > expensive > Xeon's for that. > > -- > GCP > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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