6 socket mainboard?
 

Is it possible to have a 6 socket mainboard? If not, why are only 1, 2 and multiples of 4 sockets mainboards available?

While we're at it, does anyone know if you can have a redhat 4 socket subscription run on an 8 socket board that has only 4 cpu sockets populated? (as an example, basically a subscription with unpopulated sockets in 'change') Redhat doesn't seem to know. :-/

There was 6 CPU boards around in the past-

http://www.sandyflat.net/digerati/ga...heet/index.htm

With newer multicore CPUs, the socket count doesnt matter so much. Currently opterons can have up to 12 cores per socket, xeons up to 10 cores.

A place I used to work at used them for baby computers. Our real computers would have way more.

Usually you can run them but the cores must be disabled.

thanks for response guys.