8. Charity-Crunchen 2016

[Dirk Broer]

I am looking to build another BOINC rig, and was actually looking into dual socket boards, though I only planned on having 24 physical cores.

AMD-wise you're left with dual Socket G34 mobo's with the same 12-core CPU's I mentioned a few messages ago in this same thread (though you could choose for a quad socket mobo and use four 6-core CPU's), Intel-wise you need a Socket 2011-3 mobo with Intel C612 chipset, like the Asus Z10PE-D16 WS. I can't imagine this mobo failing the I/O needs of CEP2. I would love to see a likewise equipped AMD Zen-Board....

[vaughan]

My heavy crunchers are the following from Intel:

Two of these:
E5-2692v2 cpu (ES/OEM model). 12 core 2 ghz turbo up to 2.4
Supermicro x9drd-7ln4f motherboard. Its a dual socket so the boxes actually have 24 cores (48 hyperthreaded)

One other machine is based on an E3-1275v3.