can i have 2 amd x2's on one mobo?

Not yet but Amd is pushing to have it done. It is called 4x4. It is predicted though that when dual socket mobo's hit the consumer market it won't use socet am2 but rather socket f. (Sockets they use in server/workstations)
 
You can do it with two opterons, and use standard parts like non ECC RAM, and even PCI Express x16 graphics on a nForce 4 Pro chipset. The problem is that the AMD X2 or any of the Athlon series is designed for multiprocessor. Processors have to be multicpu by design in order for them to work together. The only partially consumer level CPUs that do that are the Opteron (dual core models available too for 2x2), and Xeon (same).
 
[-0MEGA-] said:
Why not the E6600? :)

I'm not sure of the release date on AMD's 4x4.
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Money... :P The E6300 is meant to be about half the price, right?

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Core 2 Duo E6600 - 2.4GHz - $316 - (4MB L2 Cache)
Core 2 Duo E6400 - 2.13GHz - $224 - (2MB L2 Cache)
Core 2 Duo E6300 - 1.86Ghz - $183 - (2MB L2 Cache)
 
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APM98 said:
dual X2 would b beastly lol
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I know!

I am probably going to get a conroe with at least 2GHZ

will the 1.83GHZ be good at multitasking?
for example if I wanted to render video, burn dvd, could i still browse the web, AIM trition, msn etc.. without any slowing down?
 
Yes, this will probably be Opteron only technology, desktop chips RARELY support multiprocessing (only PowerPC desktop chips (G4 and G5)). As for the conroe, yes, it should do that with maybe some lag, (you can't do ALL that at FULL speed). To me, the 6300 is more worth it, as 4mb of cache is still useless these days.
 
SC7 said:
Yes, this will probably be Opteron only technology, desktop chips RARELY support multiprocessing (only PowerPC desktop chips (G4 and G5)). As for the conroe, yes, it should do that with maybe some lag, (you can't do ALL that at FULL speed). To me, the 6300 is more worth it, as 4mb of cache is still useless these days.
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Bullshit it is.

thats a vital organ in the system, why do you think that shit cost so much.
 
TonyBAMF said:
Bullshit it is.

thats a vital organ in the system, why do you think that shit cost so much.
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Look at this, and then tell me how important it is:

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It is only in WinRAR and F.E.A.R where is has a slight increase in performance.

SC7 said:
To me, the 6300 is more worth it
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Yup, you're totally right. The E6300 is the exact same processor as the others (E6400, E6600, etc...) except they have locked the mulitplier to 7x, and disabled 2MB of the Cache. Read this page of this article: X-bit labs - Articles - Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 + ASUS P5W DH Deluxe: Ideal Mainstream Platform? (page 10)

These people overclock the E6300 to 2.94 Ghz, more than a 50% increase! The only thing which prevented them from OCing it more, was the motherboard (due to the locked 7x multiplier... It had something to do with the (i)975X chipset not handling over 420Mhz FSB or something, can't remember).

Now that is definately bang for your buck ;)
 
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TonyBAMF said:
thats a vital organ in the system, why do you think that shit cost so much.
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Id' apriciate if you could point out what exactly you are targeting in my post, and without using such unecciarily vile language. Now, in order to keep a good thread going, this is the last on that as I don't want to spoil the thread. Now, onto the topic of discussing the cache, it has a minimal effect at best, even in games (as Rambo pointed out), and it's really only useful for few things that most of us won't be doing.

As for the E6300 being a bang for a buck, I'll surely say. For it's cost vs the slight performance increase to the next, I'll say I'll be getting one of these. Perfect processor for my next upgrade. Even though I don't OC, with such ease of overclocking, I'll definitely find myself pushing at least 10% out of this.
 
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