Quote - Now that sounds much more reasonable ;). Even at that it's still gonna be nice and fast (and expensive...lol). Make sure the mobo is capable of going more than 16 if you'll ever need more.

Laurie

This is a very good point, many of the dual LGA 2011 motherboards will not take processors above a certain wattage. (they do that to keep the cost to make the board down) This will limit the number of cores per processor with even the best Xeons. Some cut off at 90, some at 130, some will run 150 watt ones.

Another thing to ask is if the secondary cpu is on the motherboard or on a daughter card. If it is on a daughter card I would upgrade to a motherboard that has both of them on the main board.

I have a Dell that someone gave me that is a daughter type (Westmere LGA 1366 Xeons), and it is no where near as fast as one with both cpus on the motherboard.

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