Motherbaords for dual socket is going to be much more $ than a single socket board that supportsd quad core.
Often, all that I know of in the Intel line, motherboards that are dual socket are going to use "server" RAM (FBDIMMs). This is much more $ and *slower* than the non-buffered regular DDR you can use for a single quad core system. For several months you were able to get dual cores with 1333MHz FSB, but quad cores were 1066MHz FSB. You can now get quad cores with 1333MHz FSB that do not use the server RAM. There are also some with TWELVE megs of cache that are starting to get out of the stratosphere (see: Q9450) On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:58 -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > Doug LaRue wrote: > > ** Reply to message from DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 > > 16:13:46 -0700 > > > >> He didn't wait for Vista. He waited til he could afford hardware > >> powerful enough to play some of the latest games. Vista just happened to > >> come with the hardware package. > > > > ah, I read the DX10 bit to sound like he believed Microsoft in that it > > was only a Vista thing and some games only supported DX10. > > > > and hey, with that system he purchased, he won't even miss the 50% > > performance boost he'd get if he had XP on it. > > > > Well, my next machine is going to be a quad. > > ..I'm just waiting for the prices to drop to $100. ;-) > > Hey- it is starting to be worth re-asking a question I heard awhile > back: what are pros & cons of quad-core vs a pair of duals? > > Regards, > ..jim > > -- ************************************************************ Michael J. McCafferty Principal, Security Engineer M5 Hosting http://www.m5hosting.com You can have your own custom Dedicated Server up and running today ! RedHat Enterprise, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and more ************************************************************ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
