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8 Soc (8x 10 core Xeon cpu's) Motherboard With 4 Video Cards.
What u think, pretty badass for rendering
Not that killer price with 200-300 $ Xeons, and memory is pretty cheap already (even the 4 Gb modules)
Didn't find price for the mobo

http://www.supermicro.com/products/moth ... 8OBN-F.cfm

Something smells fishy, only Xeon 7500 series cpu's are supported.
Not faster but 10x more expensive

10 core Xeon CPU for 200-300$??

I'm following very much the CPU offer, but I'm more than surprised...

Etienne

The Xeon 7500 CPU is also 8 core / 16 thread, so the machine would in total have 64 cores / 128 threads, at a cost of over $30,000 for the CPUs alone.

galinette wrote:10 core Xeon CPU for 200-300$??

I'm following very much the CPU offer, but I'm more than surprised...

Etienne

Yes yes my bad,
Only 7500 series CPU's are supported for this motherboard.

to: support@supermicro.com

Hi

Why don't u have (processors via CPU boards type) motherboard (like: http://www.supermicro.com/products/moth ... 8OBN-F.cfm) line for home / personal user who needs cpu power in smaller price range?
Xeon 7500 series 1 cpu is 2300 - 4000 $.

Attractive cpu price is ~ 300 $, that means Xeon 5X00 series.

Best wishes
Meelis

Sorry we don’t have 5000 series with multi-processor board, only these:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/moth ... 7000/#7300
thanks.

FP

Lowest price is $2059 for the Intel® Xeon® Processor X7542 (18M Cache, 2.66 GHz, 5.86 GT/s Intel® QPI)
So i7 farm is still the best bang for the buck.

There is even cheaper model in Xeon 7500 line, only $856
And u can get 54% speed of i7-2600 's in 2.9x higher price.
Both consume 95 W power.

Xeon E7520
$856
Sandra Multi-Media Benchmark 88.128 Mpix/s

i7-2600
$294
Sandra Multi-Media Benchmark 163.232 Mpix/s (default clock)