Dual socket board for non server CPU

[Yoandy]

please can anyone explain to me why there is not a Dual socket motherboard on the market supporting I7 processors ?

maybe  a silly question, but I googled it and i didn't find a logic answer.

 

Thanks.

[Himommies]

Because there is no point in doing that when you can buy a i9

Also welcome to the forums

[kerradeph]

Basically if you want that level of workstation power you would want to move to the Xeon series. The Core series doesn't have the interconnect for multi-processor support. 

[ARikozuM]

i7's don't support multi-socket boards. 

[Yoandy]

but xeon processors are way more expensive than core I processor,

8 minutes ago, kerradeph said:

Basically if you want that level of workstation power you would want to move to the Xeon series. The Core series doesn't have the interconnect for multi-processor support. 

what its the "interconnect" and why they dont have it, am i the only person in the world wanting to get a multi core I socket board?

[kerradeph]

12 hours ago, Yoandy said:

but xeon processors are way more expensive than core I processor,

what its the "interconnect" and why they dont have it, am i the only person in the world wanting to get a multi core I socket board?

At similar levels as the Core I series CPUs they're not too much more expensive. If you want one that's able to work on a multi-socket system, you would need to look at the higher level ones like the E5 or E7 series which are about on par with the I9/X series of CPUs. 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_QuickPath_Interconnect

 

It's a bunch of circuitry to communicate with other sockets/CPUs on the motherboard. It would add a lot of complexity and cost to the Core I series so there's little interest in adding it. I imagine there's plenty of people who wish it were a thing, but Intel sees the lack of actual interest in having something like that on the consumer grade CPUs due to it's impact on the cost for a feature that a minor fraction of it's users would even use. 

 

https://ark.intel.com/products/96900/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-8894-v4-60M-Cache-2_40-GHz

 

See the QPI speed and # of QPI links stats on this page. That is basically talking about how fast they can talk and how many other sockets it can talk with. 

[Yoandy]

now i got it thank you, which should be the equivalent on xeon processors to an i7 8700k ?