Dual CPU's. What is this witchcraft you speak of sir ?
This is for real people with real jobs
Not for your gamer e-peen
I remember when I thought that dual CPUs meant that you could run two OSs simultaneously.
>much 386 with math coprocessor
>>51812268
>implying you can't
wew
>>51812335
With VMs, sure, but that's another kettle of fish. It has nothing to do with the number of physical CPUs or CPU cores your system has.
16 DIMM's ? Why ?
>Not putting a couple of these in your dual cpu mobo
>>51811835
Literally nothing special.
You can buy them on ebay from deprecated servers.
>>51811835
>>51812409
>Not adding a few of these because MOAR CORES
>>51812513
>pins
>that extra pci-e finger that doesnt fit on this board
What use would a "power user" need two processors for?
>>51812390
For database & web servers, using all the ram as cache.
>>51812607
Video encoding/transcoding, rendering and 3 fps more in csgo.
>>51812727
>Video encoding/transcoding
so if you were making youtube videos and shit like that you would benefit from it? there is literally no other use for it?
>>51812607
online dick length contests
>>51812788
Anything that you can spread tasks out over 32 threads and receive a benefit in reduced time taken resulting in higher productivity from.
>>51812826
thanks for the technical definition. I'm just trying to think up programs that would use that. Besides video I really can't think of anything.
>>51812362
>almost 2016
>not using CPU passthrough
i thought this is the technolo/g/y board
>>51812513
What is this beauty
>>51812788
Virtualization, when you want a homelab with 25+ simultaneously running vms.
>>51812848
Compressing, en-/decryption
>>51811835
THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM
>>51812848
Compilling too benefits from multiple threads and simulation
XEON PHI FOR CRYSIS
>>51812989
I don't even know what the benefit to having 4 CPUs is, all I know is that I want it
>>51812989
Octo-socket systems exist you know. I remember that a few years ago before G34 released, Tyan had made a dual motherboard combo system, with each board holding a quartet of C32 sockets. The boards would link to each other via a pair of riser cards, and the slave board would be on top of the master board.
Intel also has Octo-socket systems for their super super high end Xeons, but they're exceedingly rare.
>>51812989
I think I have somewhere pictures of an 8 socket Tyan mainboard.
>>51813069
Need more minera- wait, CORES
>>51813073
Where would those even fit? I can't picture (lol, picture something that you can't find through google images) a mobo supporting that and RAM to fit in a normal blade server.
>>51813086
POST'EM
>>51813119
Well, the intel Octo socket systems I think stick a pair of CPUs and their associated memory pool on a daughterboard, and then 4 of them are installed in the same system to produce an octo-socket server.
As for the Tyan, i have no earthly fucking clue.
>>51812861
wth is cpu passthrough ? do you mean core pinning with kvm ?
>>51812861
>not /g/oyim /g/eneral
>>51812513
I-It's beautiful!
>>51813195
>>51812934
Pentium to Athlon conversion card. Old shit.
>>51812826
uhm, I doubt these CPUs don't share the cache, so if I'm correct, using both at the same time for one CPU-intensive, memory-intensive task is a complete idiocy.
>>51813233
>I doubt these CPUs share
ftfm
>>51813233
how the fuck are you supposed to use multiple cpus (or even fucking cores) for just 1 task ?
>>51813291
Would the task being multi-threaded count as a single task even though it is split?
I would say yes, but you might be thinking no.
>>51812268
you could literally do that
but it would be pointless
Long time ago i think about build a multi processor pc, but i realize that is useless if u don't have software made for it. more cores or more processors doesn't mean more power if software don't use it. it's a waste of energy and money
>>51811835
For gayming
>>51815656
>no pci-e
into the trash
>>51815735
What are you talking about? It has seven.
>>51815735
Literally has seven you half wit
>>51815735
fuckin wut?
>>51815596
You would be correct, Dmitri
>>51815656
>neutral black & grey base
>light gold accented components
>those angular classy heatsinks on the vrm and chipset
Asus really do make some 10/10 mommy boards when they're not going full out gaymer
>>51815749
>>51815756
>>51815762
wait. i thought pci-e was the smaller slots, and that has none
>>51815793
>wait. i thought pci-e was the smaller slots, and that has none
What? You mean PCI-e x4? That shit?
>>51811883
>>51812362
>kettle of fish
literally wut
>>51816394
only 2? lmao i got 4 cores with hyperthreading. nice try.
>>51815656
>Z10PE-D16 has support for 1TB memory
>socket supports up to 18 cores per processor
>all those SATA ports
my dick can only get so har-
>2.4GHz clock speed
pic related
>>51815793
dumbass
>>51811835
It's something that people who don't know what they're talking about but think they do will tell you won't provide any benefits and is for "servers and workstations".
In reality dual CPU systems incredibly based and will give you a wide range of performance increases.
It's two fuckin' CPUs. Come on.
>>51812848
If it's a video game that is optimized for many threads it will take advantage of two CPUs. To the game it is just moar coars.
>>51812989
Are there any workstation PCs with quad-socket mobos in sold by the big players?
>>51815596
But most software these days is multi-threaded so the benefits are substantial.
>>51811883
I'm NEET and I bought a dual CPU workstation off of ebay because it was the most computing power I could get for under $500.
But I do some video work on it. I use it to intelligently upscale and clean up old porn flicks, which I then sell for a few bucks to old-man collectors.
>>51811835
why, this is noting more than adding more cores.
>>51816874
yes, and doubling the memory controllers, spreadimg the heat load across two seperate areas, doubling the pci-e lanes, ect.
>>51816729
Several. Search Newegg.
Put 16 core Opterons in them and you can have a 64-core machine.
>>51816000
They all are. Even so, pcie 4x can still go in a 16x and work exactly.as intended at 4x speed.
>>51816740
>png
What are you, fucking retarded?
>>51816940
Is this a thing? Like is it made and in use somewhere on the tubes?
>>51817022
Really? I did not know that.
>>51813149
Two motherboards in one case, a two layer board by Tyan. It's not even Intel, which is hilarious.
>>51812362
Sure it does, if you are smart, you can overprovision up to 10x
>>51817543
Yep, and if you have the understanding of a card and balls for it you could cut down a x16 PCI-E card to fit a PCI-E x2 clot if the card only uses two of the lanes.
>>51812390
I have a single cpu board with an e5-2680 w/ 8 DIMM slots.
I have it running about 40 VMs
>>51812607
More cores = more vms.
I have 8 cores/16 threads on my virtual host, could use 16 cores/32 threads better.
>>51815735
>"no pci-e"
>7 pci-e slots
>nothing BUT pci-e
>>51812848
ESX
>>51813069
moar vms
>>51816740
Nice cable management.
>>51815793
Haha you stupid fuck, PCI-E is basically all there is now.
We however see it in many forms, 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x,16x slots, each longer than the last
>>51816524
It's a workstation board faggot
>>51811883
>real jobs
>CPU power rather than GPU
Fuck off, retard.
Haswell Xeon + 32gb ECC + Quadro/Firepro is all you ever need.
Any more and it's time to look at server rental.
>>51811835
>tfw i over heard a co-worker bragging about buying one of these memeboards
>xenon have more cores than both sockets holding i7s could have threads combined
>and faster cuz all under the same hood
>and cheaper
>>51817696
It isnt affecting anything.
>>51817736
Fuck off cunt, clearly this would work great for a home lab.
>>51817543
yea, pci-e is pretty simple, and is pretty flexible with the lanes
first little set of pins (before the key) are for power and other bits and pieces, the rest are the lanes (data channels), layed out in order (lane1, lane2, lane3...)
so if you only use the first lane, it's "1x", first four is "4x", etc
you *can* connect any card to any slot, provided you can modify one to fit, though there's no gaurantee the card will work at full speed
for example, you can shove a 16x slot gpu into a 4x slot on a motherboard, but the bandwidth will be limited, so it might not run full speed
you can also put a 1x sound card into a 16x slot, and it'll run just the same, just using one lane out of the 16 available
>>51817710
yeah. for some reason when i did research for if i could put my soundcard in one of the larger pci-e slots I came to the conclusion you couldn't. will try it in another slot now because where it is now is too close to my GPU
>>51811835
>only two
>>51817878
>only 4
>>51817599
>>51817878
>more physical processors means faster work!
>>51816394
>not boiling your fish in the kettle
>>51817878
All that bullshit only to be slower than a ULV skylake.
>>51816033
Ram cooler placebo 0.1/10 for making me respond
>>51815656
Holy shit that is fucking gorgeous.
>>51817998
No shit?
>>51817652
Can confirm. I outfitted my work computer with a cut GTX580 to fit into the x8 slot.
>>51818492
why the fuck did you not buy an x8 to x16 adapter??
>>51817599
That's really old though, and >AMD.
Intel supports 8 socket systems in their current gen of Xeons but I haven't seen a system that has that yet.
>>51816940
>Put 16 core Opterons in them and you can have a 64-core machine.
Yeah but that would be the equivalent of what, 32 Intel cores.
>>51818540
Oracle makes a couple 8-socket systems. Lenovo and Dell probably do too.
>>51817878
>Itanium
please remove yourself from this planet
>>51811883
/thread
>tfw used a dp PowerMac G5 as my desktop for a few years and now it's my server
>>51815793
/g/ everyone
>>51818571
The sparc servers can be "combined" to one machine with one address space. This way you could build a 64 socket server where each cpu addresses up to 512 gb ram.
