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Looking for a low cost mainboard with 4 CPU slots

Started by acassis, July 19, 2015, 07:23:36 am

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acassis

Hi Andy,

Do you know some low cost mainboard with 4 CPU sockets for Xeon X5680?

I find out Supermicro X7QC3, but it still too much expensive.

About 2 CPU slots, did you take a look at Dell Poweredge R410 ? It has a low cost at eBay (lesser than Z800).

BR,

Alan

acassis

Sorry about (tri) duplicated messages, I was receiving 502 error when trying to the in the forum.

Andy Brown

Quote from: Alan Carvalho de Assis on July 19, 2015, 07:23:36 am
Do you know some low cost mainboard with 4 CPU sockets for Xeon X5680?

I've never seen a quad socket Westmere/Nehalem board and if it did exist then it would likely be made by Supermicro or Tyan and probably come in a form factor designed for a rack case.
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I find out Supermicro X7QC3, but it still too much expensive.

It's not for the Westmere/Nehalem series Xeons.

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About 2 CPU slots, did you take a look at Dell Poweredge R410 ? It has a low cost at eBay (lesser than Z800).

(R) = rack. In a tower case the slots would not line up in the chassis and the rear ports would be in the wrong place.
It's worse than that, it's physics Jim!

acassis

Hi Andy, thank you very much for this information.

Do you think it is difficult to adapt a Rack mainboard to use on desktop case?

BR,

Alan