10 Mar
2010
10 Mar
'10
12:22 a.m.
On Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:35 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 at 9:49pm, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote
If cpu processing power is the sole criteria, then why limit to dual-socket boards and not go for quad-socket boards?
In general, the price goes up non-linearly as you go above 2 sockets, making 2 sockets the sweet spot when it comes to price/performance.
Hmm, I see at most a 50% increase in motherboard pricing from a dual to a quad socket motherboard and that is with a difference in feature set too with the quad coming with an extra onboard LSI 8 port SAS controller. That is hardly going up non-linearly. (taking an extremely narrow angle ;-p)