Does this motherboard exist?

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ziggy1984

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So, I've come into posession of some sealed in-the-box parts:

2 x intel e8400 processors
2 x gigabyte 9800gt video cards
4 x 2gb ddr2 800 ram chips

and a case.

Ive received comments to sell the parts online. Others have told me that I could build a relatively powerful system out of what I have.

Does anyone have any opinions?

I tried looking for dual cpu and dual video card motherboards which would support all of the above parts with the hope of combining them into a single powerful computer, but I'm having no luck in finding such a motherboard.

Does a motherboard supporting 2 x dual core cpus and 2 x video cards exist, that also additionally supports up to 8gb ram?

I should add that I'm fairly inexperienced/ new to tinkering with computer hardware. Can anyone either offer me a suggestion or direct me to a site that could help me track down such a motherboard which I can then buy...

Any help would be appreciated!!
 
I would expect that you have parts that were meant for 2 computers, not just one, as an e8400 can only be used on a single socket motherboard. I believe the Xeon processors could be used dual socket motherboards.
 
linkin said:
Yeah I'd just go ahead and pawn the parts on Ebay or something.
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That's what I'd do, but if you wanna built a rig with them, then you could get yourself a decent 775 mobo and SLi the GPUs, use the 8GB of RAM, sell one of the E8400s, and put the other one in there.
 
fastdude said:
That's what I'd do, but if you wanna built a rig with them, then you could get yourself a decent 775 mobo and SLi the GPUs, use the 8GB of RAM, sell one of the E8400s, and put the other one in there.
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Can you recommend a decent 775 mobo and give me a brief run down of what is involved in Sli(ing) the GPUs? Is this referring to dual video cards? If so, I would imagine this would need a mobo that supports 8gb ram and has dual video card slots...

Please shoot a couple of mobo names and models at me!

:-)
 
ziggy1984 said:
Can you recommend a decent 775 mobo and give me a brief run down of what is involved in Sli(ing) the GPUs? Is this referring to dual video cards? If so, I would imagine this would need a mobo that supports 8gb ram and has dual video card slots...

Please shoot a couple of mobo names and models at me!

:-)
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SLI needs 2 things to work.

1: 2 SLI compatible graphic cards, identical models, but not necessarily made by same company. (you've got, hooray)
2: A SLI compatible motherboard that has 2 PCIe-x16 slots.
So in short, unless your motherboard has 2 PCIx16 slots, you cant run SLI on that motherboard. Also, a very important thing is 775 intel chipsets don't support SLi. You'll need an nForce chipset
You could consider
The Asus P5N-D
That's the only decent one I can find ATM, though I'm sure there's more.
I think now that it would be better for you to sell both graphics cards and one CPU, get an intel chipset 775 mobo with nice features (P45/G43G/41/P43)

maybe the Asus P5Q
or
The gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L is worth considering.
For GPU, use the money from sales of other components to get a GTX460, or if you make less, a HD5770
 
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