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In my research of a dual-socket build, I found that:
- There are no inexpensive dual-socket motherboards - the cheapest are like 4x the cost of a single socket board.
- Dual socket motherboards often require Registered or ECC RAM which is way more expensive (though not always, I admit)
- Dual socket motherboards are often E-ATX or other larger-than-ATX size, which means you now have to buy a bigger, more expensive, case.
- Dual socket motherboards require server-class (Xeon) CPUs rather than consumer-class (Core i7) which cost more for equal GHZ.
- Dual socket motherboards rarely allow any overclocking
- Server class CPUs have lots of cache - which doesn't help crunching all that much. I have a Celeron Dual Core that crunches as fast as cache-laden Core 2 Duos, clock-for-clock, but at about half price. And look at how cheap the Athlon X4 is now!

Yes, with dual socket, you only need one hard drive, not two, and half as many sticks of RAM, but that seemed to me to be outweighed by the above.
Yes, you'll need two cases and power supplies with two rigs, but you can buy smaller of both so the cost is about the same. My guess is the electricity used will be really close too, since nearly all the power is going to the CPUs, the other components use very little by comparison - of course you need to make sure you are buying smaller power supplies so they run in their efficiency "sweet spot" which is usually 50-70% load.

Of course, this ALL goes out the window if you build for more than just crunching... that said, for my needs, I like the redundancy afforded by having two strong single socket server/gaming/crunching machines rather than one dual socket machine for all the same tasks.

Hello fellows from long time

I think it is going to be black winter here again, weather is more like spring kind of.... Crappy kind of.....

Well, this has not stop me buying tons of winter gears for outdoor activities (I'm optimist, there will so cold that I can do pole vaulting with mercury)...

This is some very nice from local manufacturer...
Boot itself is very warm, coretex and thick wool inside. What makes it funny is that they have integrate Powermax heating system as solid structure..

Manual says that those should provide:
19h / 98'F
9h / 113 'F
4h / 158 'F

From my experience, those really can....
Some very nice boots

Hello Joe,
I know that feeling

Some more winter-gear stuff...

I think I wrote here couple of years ago about winter jacket from Miltec...
Fabric on it has start to wear out, so I did order new one.

Jacket is produced (not know for sure) on China, but it is actually very warm, very suitable here on (ex) arctic climate.

So I wrote to fellow who sold me last time, dude told me that he does not sold those anymore but promise order one for me.
I know that it cause some extra work for fellow, so did not want to take just one, more like carton...(believe I know, my mother owns few boutique.).
I got five jacket (taxes and postages included) on 314€ (430U$D).




Apropoo,

I notice that design of those has been done GA USA....
Yes I'm six foot six (3XL / 195cm)...

Some very nice hanger
I think I can say this now when it is water under bridge, I work there nine year...
Second best place to work on this life I guess , happy to say that my current one might be even better... Time will show... Work is crappy but people are so very nice... and there fore it is so nice to get my ärse there every morning.

Second best place to work in my life too... though I've only worked two places. My current job is so much better, I don't miss the Blue Zoo one bit...