grahamlee Junior Member
Posts: 1
Joined: 02/12/2006
Hello All
I am new to this forum and to workstation class computers, and need to ask what you may think is a stupid question.
In order to future-proof and allow for upgrades, I was thinking of building a machine that can take two opteron dual core processors, two graphics cards (SLI), and SATA II hard drives in a RAID array. A couple of motherboards that seem to fit the bill are:
For economic reasons I only intend to buy one processor, one graphics card and one hard drive to begin with, and I will see how things go with the 3D Landscape Visualisation and Photoshop tasks I am building the machine for.
However, (this is the stupid question) I do not know if you can operate the motherboards with only one processor in place. I think I am right in saying that there is no problem in using only one graphics card.
Any advice or even a simple Yes/No answer would be greatly appreciated.
well what i do knwo is that the graphics card should work with only 1 but the cpu socket may be different or may not work at all. Power supply all are connected to the cpu (dual , or if its single)
functional-pc Senior Member
Posts: 1558
Joined: 01/10/2005
answer is yes... also read up on 'Iwill DK8ES'
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