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Best Motherboard for a Large Memory System?

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Demand? by tomstdenis · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Maybe you don't see many home-user 64G boxes because there is little demand for it.

    As for "expensive addons/etc". You can buy cheaper motherboards and just add on IDE if that suits your fancy. Promise [iirc] controllers give decent performance and aren't that expensive [~$60 CAD]

    Tom

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  2. big ram server.. by gl4ss · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    is not going to be cheap.

    simple as that. you will have fork over premium for something that would support what you feel is big ram.

    offtopic: anyone know how to stop windows from swapping when there is 500mb+ of free ram? it's really annoying, and just putting the swap to 0 on all drives doesn't really solve the problem either(and some soft freak off from it, this is on XP). I hate having 1.5gb of ram and only seeing half of it used regularly while having windows swap horrendously.

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