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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. Re:Possible Problem by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 0, Troll

    Huh? You should be able use up to 4GB on 2.6. You can run up to 64GB in a single 32-bit machine with extended addressing, but you're still limited to 4GB per process, IIRC.

    (I'm no g00r00, but I can search kerneltrap.org as well as the next guy, and I call either ignorant or an attempt to troll. Given the Windows reference, I'm inclined to assume the latter.)

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  2. Re:big ram server.. by x_codingmonkey_x · · Score: 0, Troll
    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.

    I think the clear answer to your question is ...
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    Linux! :P

  3. Re:Any reason why you are building it yourself? by Elshar · · Score: 0, Troll


    I can very easily find better quality parts for the same price or even cheaper than the mass-produced, lowest-possible-price pieces of tapeworm infested animal excrement parts that wholely make up the boxes you can buy from taiwan.

    Also, considering that any geek worth thier salt can throw any machine of any moderate complexity together and working perfectly (minus os install and possible driver hunting/install) in roughly 60 minutes or less, why would you pay the same amount for crappy parts and even crappier 'support'?

    Yes, I like runon sentances :)