Dual CPU system for Multitasking Video/gaming

[Dvimida]

I have been looking for a good advice for the intention of to build a dual processor system at the moment. I am huge fan of AMD processors and so i have decided to use the Opteron processor for this dula chip system. I mainly use this system for video encoding as well as for gaming. So i need a best multitasking experience out from this box. Any suggestions would be appreciated for the following specs:

• Asus KGPE-D16 Motherboard
• Opteron 6220 (8 core 3ghz) x2 CPUs
• Corsair DDR3 1600mhz (16gb x2)
• Asus Mio 888 Sound card
• AMD 6950 x2 (Crossfire) GPU
• Cooler Master Silent Pro 1000w PSU
• Noctua NH-U12DO x2 CPU Cooling
• 120gb SSD and 2TB WD HDD x2
• Samsung SH-222 x2
• 22" MONITOR x3

[Arun K]

Yes, a CPU usually goes well on a dual CPU board. But watch out when buying it, that you take the dual-CPU version of the CPUs. Some boards are even with only one CPU for the desktop S1366 base, but then the upgrade is denied on a second CPU ... To the CPU coolers, as you look at the best times in the thread to Nehalem EP, there are some cooler that only work on . Otherwise, simply search times a photo of the board and measure whether the desired fit potentially cooler. OC is otherwise very very limited extent, not to say not at all feasible.

[raghini]

The main problem in the configuration should be the starting current of the hard disks. Since there are two solutions:
First take a power supply, which can quickly deliver more power than indicated and are not equal off. For example, Seasonic is known.
Second Using controllers that can spin up a sequential, so turn the plates in sequence. Such options are partially hidden in the controller BIOS - since you have to look after.

[Geniee]

There must be supporting the game server. Just have to look at the relevant times for the keyword SMP servers.

[Savannah87]

as already said, the operating system and the software will also support dual processors explicitly. Then in game to play with the Q3 engine, others looking at the moment I do not. At best I would take for something like Linux, but also managed several processors and then distributes the load on this no matter what software is running, and there is always a game server for nearly every game a Linux server ...