Recommendations for a high-power motherboard
Christopher Chan
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Fri Dec 3 00:30:53 UTC 2010
On Friday, December 03, 2010 03:33 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> I'm constructing a wish list of my next round of purchases to upgrade
> my home PC.
>
> Any recommendations for a dual-socket (prefer AMD) server-strength
> motherboard? I'm thinking of getting two X4 or X6 CPUs and a lot of
> memory (8+GB). i7s are also possible (but WAY more expensive, hence
> the "prefer AMD").
>
I would recommend Supermicro AMD boards. If you have high bandwidth
needs, go for a dual SR5690 chipset board perhaps like this one.
http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron2000/SR56x0/H8DAi_-F.cfm
OH...hang on a minute...you're looking for boards that take Phenoms?
Sorry, I don't think there are any dual socket AM2/AM3 motherboards out
there.
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