On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Hideki Kato <[email protected]>wrote:
> Gian-Carlo Pascutto: <[email protected]>: > >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. > > EVGA Classified Super Record 2 (SR-2) has dual LGA1366 sockets, > though it officially does not support i7 but uni-processor Xeon > 5500/5600. > http://www.evga.com/articles/00537/ > > Don, unfortunately, this mobo is much bigger than ATX :(. > Yes, I hate doing all of this shopping and research - I have other stuff I need to be doing. I'm trying to figure out now what to send back and what to keep if anything. I think at this point I either go budget with a single i7 system, or I send everything back except the memory and put together an i9 system which is going to jack up the costs - but it will be a great bang for the buck system. Don > > Hideki > -- > [email protected] (Kato) > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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