Its been brought to my attention......

[benscoobert]

A Xeon X5482 pulls around 6300PPD unclocked

So a dual mobo, oc'ed could be around 15000!

wanting:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

[orion456]

At $1600 each plus a board, I don't think its economical. You could buy a dozen q6600's for that price! That's 36,000 ppd.

[leelegend]

i would still go for the xeons....cooling, management, space.

all much easier with 1 rig that a dozen

lee

[William Hung]

Which rig and how is that set up?
I'm running a QX9650 at 4.33 Ghz on Native Linux and not seeing those #'s!
More like 5k-5.5kppd.

[jonspd]

plus you would save on your electricity :D

[ChasR]

At some point lack of ram bandwidth is going to choke the cpus in multiple cpu machines.

[CJ145]

The dual xenon boards have 4 ram channels though. Same number of channels per cpu as a single socket board. Of course it is FBDIMM though.

[Ben333]

well two q6600s or x3210s with a little OC would be a hell of a lot cheaper and have a possibly better PPD

[William Hung]

Still would like to know the setup to get 6000k ppd stock out of this rig. Even with the same core OC'd 30% higher, I can't match those #'s in native Linux!

[CJ145]

Are you running two SMP clients?

[benscoobert]

Which rig and how is that set up?
I'm running a QX9650 at 4.33 Ghz on Native Linux and not seeing those #'s!
More like 5k-5.5kppd.

Not sure it was a test run by custompc magazine

I think that beastly cache makes a big difference

[William Hung]

Hmm, I'll check out the article. I've got the same beastly cache and don't see those numbers.

[AlabamaCajun]

The big question before people run out and buy mps mobos, which ones?

[CJ145]

Really if you want to overclock a dual socket mobo, you need to wait for skulltrail.