6 socket mainboard?

just a man · 10-17-2011, 05:19 AM

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. :-/

cascade9 · 10-17-2011, 11:45 AM

There was 6 CPU boards around in the past-

Quote:

Supports up to Six Pentium Pro 200/512 or 200/1MB Processors

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.

jefro · 10-17-2011, 07:46 PM

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.

just a man · 10-18-2011, 06:12 AM

thanks for response guys.