Hi,
There is any dual socket (CPU) gaming motherboard for gaming (Intel or AMD) ?
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Hi,
There is any dual socket (CPU) gaming motherboard for gaming (Intel or AMD) ?
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I don't think such exists in PC's. It would be a case of DPU (Decentralised processing units). The nearest is hyperthreading (one CPU running 2 threads).
And, in a certain way, the GPU running in parallel with the CPU is kind of 2 processors also; especially for a laptop there are GPU's that are mounted on the motherboard.
Kees
"Our tests demonstrate fairly little difference between a $225 LGA 1155 Core i5-2500K and a $1000 LGA 2011 Core i7-3960X, even when three-way graphics card configurations are involved. It turns out that memory bandwidth and PCIe throughput don't hold back the performance of existing Sandy Bridge-based machines. "
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-4.html
Remember that you noted "for gaming" so that's not where folk invest the dollars.
Bob
I don't know if it's worth the price or not...for gaming. The board are expensive and the CPU will also be very expensive (socket 2011).
While CNET did show bleeding edge 3X GPU systems at http://www.cnet.com/news/hands-on-with-nvidias-new-titan-x-graphics-cards/ those systems could not seem to break 60FPS at 4K.
That and more is why I suggest a gamer stick with 1080 today and a nice high end single GPU.
Bob
like for example http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Z9PED8_WS/
But I wonder if they help gaming performance now moe than they did 3 years ago when http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2964242 was written.
I'd like to see a benchmark before recommending spending so much money for it.
Kees
Did you find any others that said they were for gamng?
And did you find benchmarks when they were used for that? If not, there's a nice task for you.
Kees
Yes you could, but read this article for why it wouldn't work so well.
Take a look at this link
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/2010010...
Here's some dated article about an i5 delivering enough for 3 GPUs.
"Our tests demonstrate fairly little difference between a $225 LGA 1155 Core i5-2500K and a $1000 LGA 2011 Core i7-3960X, even when three-way graphics card configurations are involved. It turns out that memory bandwidth and PCIe throughput don't hold back the performance of existing Sandy Bridge-based machines. "
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-4.html
Can't see where I'd pop for a dual CPU now.
Bob