>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.
I think you may we right; the i9 is now called the i7 by the way ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulftown_(microprocessor) ) The i7 980X is 3.3Ghz, $999. The review here (http://www.anandtech.com/show/2960/16) is saying if your code is CPU-bound and your code scales then this is the best single chip you can get. If money is no object... One of the comments says "The INTEL i7 980X has dual QPI's and will run in a dual socket mainboard". So, running one in the dual-socket motherboard you've already got may be an option, and adding another CPU later on when they drop in price? (BUT, I've not managed to find another source to confirm that it really is dual-socket compatible; everything else seems to say you need xeons to do dual-socket.) Darren -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/gobet/ (Shodan Go Bet - who will win?) http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
