First post, by Blavius
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I have an IBM server from 2003 sitting in the garage with a Xeon Prestonia in it. Looking for a next project, I decided to resurrect this old beast. The motherboard has two sockets, but only one is filled, so I hunted down a VRM and identical Xeon on ebay. For peanuts really, the CPU was just $9. Don't have the parts it in yet, but in figuring out what processor to get I noticed that is basically an early netburst pentium 4.
This put me on a whole other train of thought. In general there are consumer (Pentium) and professional (Pentium Pro/Xeon) processors. Motherboards with dual sockets seemed to exist for both up to some point. Like, I've seen examples of dual pentium, pentium II and pentium III on this forum. Then later on, in 2005, we got the pentium D and I assume the need for dual socket boards for consumers disappeared. But what about the early pentium 4 years, pre-hyperthreading (2000-2002)? Maybe I'm just terrible at searching, but I didn't find pictures or mentions of dual pentium 4 anywhere. So, just out of curiosity:
-Do dual pentium 4 motherboards exist? If so, do you have experience with them? If no, why do you think that's the case?