Cheap desktop build?

[filsdemorte]

Hey everyone! I'm trying to build a cheap desktop to upgrade the trash I have right now. I want to use it for every day purposes and gaming. 

I was wondering what motherboard would be better?

LGA 1366 single socket 

LGA 1366 dual socket 

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the mobos?

I want to put 2 xenon x5660s into the dual socket but if I cannot overclock it I think the single socket board would be better. I am afraid that the dual socket will cause a bottle neck with speed and graphics. What board would best suit my needs?

[AMDPRO]

Dual socket is better

[Crunchy Dragon]

LTT did a video a while back on a budget "8 core" gaming rig using 2 Xeons, I think they covered that.

[filsdemorte]

What one should I look for then? 

Am I able to overclock this guy?

Foxconn 02010 He 00600 G Intel LGA 1366 Dual Socket Server Motherboard

[Ashiella]

Single socket: overclock no ecc

dual socket: no overclock, can use ecc

exception: evga sr-2 (dual socket, can oc, can use ecc)

photoshop, and animation, dual socket.

anything else, single socket.

x5660 @ 4.35ghz = 5820k @ 3.5ghz

[Guest]

There are many advantages of dual socket motherboards, server mothebroards in particular. ECC memory support, generally server boards have excessive amounts of RAM slots and can support large capacities of RAM. If your workloads are dependent upon utilizing multiple cores, then go with the dual socket motherboard, if all your doing is general multipurpose stuff and gaming, then go with the single socket motherboard.

[asand1]

Sabertooth X58 will run unbuffered/unregistered RAM.

All dual CPU server boards are not going to be OCable. 

EVGA SR-2 is an enthusiast garde workstation board that will run Dual CPU and OC, but is EXPENSIVE.