Author Topic: anybody have a dual socket Mobo? (Read 170 times)

chug4u · « **on:** June 20, 2004, 07:44:25 PM »

Does anybody have a Dual socket Mobo? Is it worth buying one? I am looking to build a game machine, and am looking for Information. I found one on Newegg.com for the Xeon cpu.

Connection · « **Reply #1 on:** June 21, 2004, 01:17:52 AM »

You wont get double the performance, but will get a healthy improvement if you do heavy multitasking (burning disks, encoding, playing games all at once)

Roscoroo · « **Reply #2 on:** June 21, 2004, 01:44:31 AM »

A duel socket is a pain to maintain and to run under full multitasking .. yes they make great servers but are they really worth the $$$ ?

I have a duel socket 7 w/ twin 500 mhz cpu's and a scsi set up ,
its a sweet server and it played ah1 for the 1st 2 years fairly well but dollar for dollar x's time a 2-3 ghz single cpu setup is alot cheaper

it will increase in the up/down processing speed but it still bottlenecks when trying to play games (it basically uses one cpu into the video card )

shure a dual xeon would be great but are you ready for the hassles of keeping it trouble free along with the cabatibly problems they have with hardware/software while gaming .

mine was always an animal that needed taming .

qts · « **Reply #3 on:** June 21, 2004, 04:18:46 AM »

I've had dual-CPU systems for a long while. While my games machine is now a P4-2400, I used to use a dual P3-1000 with absolutely no problems.

Speedwise, you will get a slight benefit in games, but it will allow you to have something significant going on in the background without affecting your game.

You can make yourself a cheap dually rig if you go for the Athlon MP CPUs.