psyco's with too much money

[QUOTE="Cdscottie"]

Ugg, server mother boards are made for just that, servers. Just because you have multiple processors doesn't mean anything as it is just there to take the load off the other processor, exactly what a server needs and not a game. As for supporting that much memory? You would either have to use linux or a copy of Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (Which can support up to 64 GB of memory if you use Itanium processors) Also, you can find boards out there for 4 - 8 processors but rare and few to find.

 

 

Sorry, RC2 of Server 2003 Enterprise Edition allows up to 2 TBs of memory if using Itaniums.

K_r_a_u_s_e_r

That was the exact information I had until I stumbled across this. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/evaluate/system-requirements.mspx

It's a nice idea, but it's got some issues. The biggest issue I see is that any rackmount dual/quad CPU board probably isn't going to any drivers available for a non-server OS, and I've never even tried to run a modern game on Windows 2003.

Large 15k drive raids work fine, though. While they do generate heat, they won't melt before you boot into the OS. In the last datacenter I worked in we had several RAID 0+1 fibre channel SCSI boxes running (one clustered, one not) all 15k drives with a logical volume size of over 1 TB. We were hosting a 900+ gig SQL database and it was hammered on daily with no problems. Even when we lost AC in the datacenter a few times we never had any issues with our RAIDs. 

-Byshop