Does it make sense to have dual i7 5820k's OC instead of one massive xeon?

[Drummaboy57]

A dual I7's set up theoretically gives performance due to overclocking and costs less. But this is just an Idea I had. I don't even know if you can overclock on a dual socket motherboard. and I may be an idiot. What do you guys think?

[Glenwing]

A dual I7's set up theoretically gives performance due to overclocking and costs less. But this is just an Idea I had. I don't even know if you can overclock on a dual socket motherboard. and I may be an idiot. What do you guys think?

 

Only Xeons can be used in multi-CPU configurations. There's no such thing as dual i7.

[RZeroX]

Except that a Intel 5820K would not work in a dual socket motherboard as only Xeons are supported like the Z10PE-D16 WS motherboard

The motherboard supports the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 product family with dual LGA 2011-3 sockets.

[Coombzy]

A dual I7's set up theoretically gives performance due to overclocking and costs less. But this is just an Idea I had. I don't even know if you can overclock on a dual socket motherboard. and I may be an idiot. What do you guys think?

It's not possible, and even it it was the multiplier would most likely be locked in the BIOS.

[MegaDave91]

 

The motherboard supports the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 product family with dual LGA 2011-3 sockets.

Cool copy and paste.

[SPAS-ID]

overclocking on a Serverboard is a BAD idea

[BrightCandle]

A long time ago there was a motherboard called the Asus BP6, and it was dual socket and and it took Pentium 3 CPUs. I ran two celeron 366Mhz CPUs on it and they overclocked to 550Mhz. That was some machine for its time.

 

Today however its only Xeon's on dual boards and the boards themselves are targeted at servers, that market of 2x CPUs in the desktop workstation has all but dried up these days.