I’m waiting for a decent dual socket Core i7 or same generation Xeon motherboard to come out from a good manufacturer, such as Asus.
It seems to just be Intel, Tyan and Supermicro boards so far. Asus lists a couple of P6T boards (P6T6 WS, P6T7 WS) but nothing dual socket yet.
Come to think of it, I wonder what the limit for the number of sockets/cores/threads you can put in Windows 7 is, since Core i7 is 4 cores/8 threads each so dual socket would be 8 cores, 16 threads.
Anyway, if I’m missing something here someone let me know 
Update: Puget build some nice stuff but I’m sure you can get roughly the same performance for much less than $16,000.
- $16,000 4 socket 16 core Operteron PC (more photos)
- 8 socket 32 core Opteron PC (via daughter board)
I’m getting envious of other systems and I haven’t even built this one yet.
Tags: i7, motherboard, xeon