Quote Originally Posted by WeStSiDePLaYa View Post
But if your going to drop this much on a system, you must be using heavily multi-threaded apps.

Which it would then probably work out cheaper to do a 4way quad opteron system.

There is already 2-way amd server boards that have SLI support.

What I'm trying to say is this makes no sense for almost any app most people here use.

And if it DOES make sense and someone needs the power, they are better off with a 4-way AMD setup.

EDIT:

Here you go, you want the fastest money no option system, buy this 4-way tyan board, slap 4 quad core opterons in it, and it already supports SLI.

No need to wait for this, and it will be faster. Either way both the skulltrail and this is unneeded, but to say the skulltrail is the fastest with SLI or anything of the sort is just false.

You want a fast but usable system, just stick with the regular intel quads.

http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=554

1.) That board costs over $1000. For example, one seller.
2.) That board requires Opteron 8000 series which is an MP processor, not regular DP. That means, it is the series that can support multiple processors per board while DP is just dual processors per board. MP processors (8000 series) starts at ~$800 per processor.
3.) I'm betting this board has nearly no overclocking capabilities. Besides, it only has 2 x16 slots, not even 2.0 x16. It has 16 memory slots. Why would an enthusiast want that? For 64 Jiggabytes of RAM?
4.) Why would a person looking for 'performance and usability' want more cores? You yourself claimed that it 'makes no sense for almost any app most people here use.' so more cores doesn't help according to your theory.
5.) Games are progressing towards higher end physics etc. More cores, ex. 8 cores, would be beneficial. 16 cores with your system might not be beneficial due to diminishing marginal returns.
6.) I could go on to prove how inherently flawed your claims are but...