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[Xeon]

Xeons come with hyperthreading now the 3.06 has just recently been released with it. And the Raedon 9700 pro has had better ratings than the 9800. I have been looking at developers graphics cards and they are looking really promising. I am doing this all as a Uni project so I will have to do it myself. I have had a chat to a couple of ppl in connection with getting the hardware and I can get the system for around NZ$4500, I have been looking at P4 but want to be able to be a step above the rest with a Xeon or two.

[Tiggerz]

As I posted in your other thread. I dont think so.

The Xeon you are looking at is 1680 inc gst x 2 = $3300.


The board you will require to run this and meet your specifications in the other thread will be the Intel SE7505VB2 at $1441 inc gst. This comes with support for agp 8x (1.5 agp 8x pro 50 cards), Sata 150, 5 pci slots and support for 8GB DDR266 ECC ram (highest spec you will get on this kind of board). It also has GB ethernet and support for HT and 533Mhz FSB. Also has 3 separate PCI busses and support for PCI-X cards.

If you wanna try another board, then check out server works.

Accordingly you will need a special chasis for this. It needs to be extended atx and xeon compatible. Normally one would use the SC5200 Server chasis. Which is quite expensive in itself mabe a grand or so.

You will then need to fork out for the ECC Ram 4 x 1Gb sticks @ $700 inc gst each or 8 x 512Mb @ $300 inc gst each. which will set you back a packet.

Then you will need to bung in the price of the Sata or IDE drive (about 400-500 for the latter) and your ATI card. You will need to run 2 in a raid array to balance the 2 cpus.

Then factor in the cost of your OS license (unless running linux). I doubt XP will cut it. It will run on a 2 CPU system, but suspect that HT will be disabled (otherwise you will need a dual CPU server CAL).

And at the end of the day, you wont be able to overclock it and the system will be redunant in 6 months.

I would suggest using an Intel reference spec for a gaming machine. You will get a much faster performance for a lot less.

Consider an Intel 865PERLL board (250+gst) or an Asus 865 P4P800. Kingston DDR434 2x512 Dual Channel ram and a 97pro + a couple of WD drives for about 2k all up.

[NTBlowz]

Consider an Intel 865PERLL board (250+gst) or an Asus 865 P4P800. Kingston DDR434 2x512 Dual Channel ram and a 97pro + a couple of WD drives for about 2k all up.

And then add a Vapochill for $1500 which would bring overclocking to a new level :p

[DiscoStu]

Please use meaningful titles in future. :rolleyes:

Another reminder from your friendly mod team.

[Wibber]

my guess he clicked new thread instead of post, I hate it when i do that

[astro-g]

that the motherboard mentioned even vaugle resembles ATX, extended or not.

I would have thought WTX more likely,
And exotic cases are a ***** to source.

Some of the dont look to bad though,
And youd be the only guy at the lan with the window in the right side panel.

[bob_dole_nz]

you would probably also be the dude who has people going, why the **** are we not using your PC as a server for these 64 man BF games. Thats about all that a system like that would be good for, given that i doubt there are any games that utilise 64bit CPU. (dual 32bit) So hey.

What you could do instead of having the crazy **** CPU, is get the crazy **** cooling, and 2x21" monitors to go with, along with 1TB of storage. Then that would be mint.

But dual Xeons, people are just going to laugh at you.