Is there any Quad (Intel) Socket motherboard?

Question

Is there any Quad (Intel) Socket motherboard?

Answer 1

Quad Cpu Motherboard

Answer 2

if u read carefully it says "This is the processor socket on the motherboard. This socket supports Intel® Pentium® 4 and Celeron® D processors and Pentium D dual core processors in an LGA775 package and with system bus speeds of 1066, 800, or 533 MHz." celeron d, dual core and pentium 4! there is no way that motherboard can support quad core

Answer 3

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RE:

Is there any Quad (Intel) Socket motherboard?

I was looking for a Quad Socket Mobo, but only I find is AMD socket, and I wish Xeon (or any Intel).

I gave up googleing. Does it exist? Thanks!

Answer 4

No such thing. Intel uses a shared bus topology with finite bandwidth. Bandwidth limitations would starve the cpus if you had 4. With 2 cpus each would run at 100% efficiency but with 4 cpus each cpu would each run at only 50%. This is one of the reasons why multi-core cpus came out. Most Intel server boards don't even use dual cpus anymore. AMD gets around this limitation by using on-die memory controllers giving each core its own controller and bandwidth versus Intel using one controller for the whole system. These 4 cpu AMD boards have been out for over 7 years and are now yesterday's news and really never took off one reason probably being that they ran slow PC2700 ram which would bottleneck the system. Intel had some quad boards back in the days when they ran quad slot 2 cpus but thats about it. If you're thinking that having 4 cpus is going to make for a monster gaming rig forget it. The Skulltrail board that uses 2 9775 Extreme cpus is wasted by single cpu gaming rigs gaming because of the bandwidth restrictions of the slow memory the Skulltrail server board uses. Server boards are not for gaming. An Intel X58 board running a 965 Extreme i7 quad and DDR3 ram will destroy any 4 cpu AMD board there is.

Answer 5

Since dual and quad core CPUs became so common, finding dual and quad socket boards has become very rare.



They're essentially only found in purpose built server motherboards and are very expensive (for Xeons).



Intel's new Core i7 CPU has 8 logical cores in 1 CPU. Very fast.



Multi CPU systems don't make a lot of sense these days since hard drive speed and memory speeds are a bigger bottleneck in most cases.



People looking for huge speed typically buy several multi core computers and setup a compute cluster.