Best Motherboard for a Large Memory System?

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 17, 2005 @06:41AM from the what's-this-system-for-exactly dept.

kimanaw writes "Due to a particular infrastructure need, and increasing OS support for 64 bitness, I'm looking into building a large memory server box (at least 16 gigs, possibly up to 64 gigs, probably config'ed into a big ramdisk). I only need a single CPU, and just minimal disk; most prebuilt systems w/ large memory seem to focus on more CPus and big RAID, all of which (over)inflate the pricetag. I've searched several websites (including Tom's Hardware), and I've googled, but can't seem to locate any commercially available AMD MBs supporting more than 4 sticks of RAM, or 4 gigs. Have any Slashdotters built a big-RAM server? Any pointers, hints, and tips much appreciated."

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Re:I recommend an Apple by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-17 07:10 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Because he said "inexpensive", not "overpriced piece of crap".
Re:Applications: Scientific uses by jacksonj04 · 2005-04-17 07:57 · Score: 0, Flamebait

From what I hear Longhorn will chew up 32gb quite happily...

That aside, I can see serious uses for up to 4gb in the power user/gamer scenario. I have 2gb, and frequently have to dip into pagefile when playing games because they just uncompress *everything* into RAM. Means I can get some nice load times on HL2 tho.

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