Xeon Dual Cpu

External Since: Nov 25, 2003 Posts: 8

Wondering how much I may be able to get out of one.
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderi7505.html
This is the board I'm thinking about getting, no big hurry, I'm saving $$
for a while, and I
will keep saving till I think I have enough to still keep about 500$ or so
and still buy this board.
Cheapest I've found is 399 on pricegrabber.com
Thanks for any info.
I know Overclocking a server don't seem needed, and really, it's not.

scsi, SCSI can go faster then even UDMA 133 100.
SCSI-320 Someone was telling me it's something like what UDMA 160 would be
like, but I'm thinking
he was wrong.
This guy didn't even know about (Overburning) 99Min Cdr's he said there was
no such thing, till I showed him one.
And this guy builds custom computers, hmm? I don't work with macs, but I
don't mind working with AMD's from time to
time. I'm mostly a Intel fan. But if I won an auction for an AMD, I'm not
going to turn it down either.
Getting my hands in it, and even learning a thing or two I like very much.
Right now, I know of only one CPU that beats the P4C 3200 (3.2GHz) and there
rare and cost like 600$
Sorry to go on like that. I just wanted a simple answer to something, and
went miles off in another direction.
Back to it.
Why overclock an already fast server? I overclock everything I get my hands
on, unless I'm working on as friends computer.
Later all
Denny / katt

External Since: Sep 30, 2003 Posts: 8

sup Katt & Denny:

It all depends on what application you are applying to for the clocking.
Example, if you are using highend 3D applications like Alias Wavefront Maya the
fastest speeds are great on a single proc for modeling. But when it comes down
to the nitty gritty of rendering mass amouts of frames (over 800 frames @ D1
size, 720x486 or higher) I don't care how fast your single proc is, it will bog
down to a stand still. If you know what you are doing, it would be awesome to
clock a 3.0 Xeon's dual proc to the highest and at the sametime be stable
without overheating. On a simple animation of 300f @ 720x486 a dual proc can
chop down time in about 30min's or less with atleast 2 gig's of RAM. To us
that saves alot of waiting compared to a single proc. For the gamers industry
not alot of games out there will latch to the second proc.

Hopefully I answered you correctly.
Laters
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