[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Dual P4 motherboards?

[Kelledin]

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 08:28 pm, Jack Snodgrass wrote:
>    Does anyone know of any Dual CPU, INTEL, P4 motherboards?
> Something that will take two 3.0Ghz, 800mhz hyper-threaded
> CPUs?

Currently, nobody's making one.

There was some smoke about VIA possibly developing a dual P4 
chipset many months ago, but no fire ever materialized.  It 
ought to be fairly trivial--a P4 Xeon is basically a P4 with 
some extra cache-coherency logic tacked on the periphery--but 
nobody's done it.  Possibly P4's are truly SMP-disabled at the 
core, or possibly Intel just won't provide a P4 bus license that 
allows it.

>    I've got a 2 CPU Xeon motherboard at work ( with
> Hyperthreading, it shows up a 4 CPUs ) but I'd like to find a
> non-XEON one for home use.

As it is, I tend to recommend Opterons over Xeons these days.  
Intel's Xeon is flat-out getting slaughtered by Opteron lately.

-- 
Kelledin
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