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Subject: Re: build a dual Xeon with photos!

Author: Luis Smith

Date: 00:38:34 06/23/03

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On June 23, 2003 at 01:46:07, Pavel Blokhine wrote:

>On June 22, 2003 at 21:06:33, Aaron Gordon wrote:
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>>On June 22, 2003 at 20:32:37, Dan Andersson wrote:
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>>> It can't be for speed if you buy a dual machine to do chess. For a quad it's a
>>>different matter. There you gain a little, not much.
>>> I'd wager the perception of reliability comes in play. Curiously enough the
>>>most problems I've had with any computer was with an all out Intel machine. Not
>>>that it was  a terrible bother. Heck, my current SMP machine is an Intel one.
>>> I only think it would have been intersting to glean a bit about his reasons.
>>>
>>>MvH Dan Andersson
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>>You can also build a dual Athlon MP 3200+ (2.4ghz) barebones system (board,
>>chips, ram, case+psu, heatsink/fans, videocard, etc) for less than the price of
>>a single Xeon 3.06 cpu.. and the 2x3200+ would be faster. :) Gotta love it..
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>What would be the best motherboards and heatsink to build a dual MP 3200+. And
>how come most resellers only sell Dual Athlon up to 2800 MP and not higher?

I am sure Aaron could reccomend a good motherboard and heatsink, however I don't
think they make higher than AMD MP 2800, but Aaron sells pretested and
overclocked chips



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