Comments on: On Building the Best Cheap Home Server

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:49:12 +0000

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By: yourspace

yourspace — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:59:41 +0000

@dhg

why youre wanting to have more than 100gb of ram is beyond me. if youre trying to decrypt information youre better off looking into clustering, more cores = more processing power. ram is like a table top, its good to have space, but there are limits to how much is just over kill…

and for less than $1000? if you pull this off let me know where you got the parts.

and pcs now days can support up to 16gb of ram. i know mine does and its nothing flash, the board set me back aud$144 like 6-7 months ago and supports 16gb of ram :\

By: dhg

dhg — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:09:06 +0000

this must be a really old post! I am looking to build a server with a minimum of 15 GB of ram, and put a dual or quad-core processor, which might cost me around $500. I want to know the best motherboard or server in general that would be best for this. PC’s are not servers! Not REAL servers, that is. PC’s can usually hold a max of maybe 8GB ram. I want a server that can potentially hold up to hundreds of GB ram in the future. Anyone have any ideas? And, I’m trying to spend less than $1000. Keep in mind I don’t care if parts are used or not.

By: Mahmoud Al-Qudsi

Mahmoud Al-Qudsi — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:03:25 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up. I’m used to Intel, which has (almost always) been able to run Dual-Channel.
AFAIK, Dual-Channel is more or less useless on a server, where size matters more?

By: Jarek

Jarek — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 02:04:35 +0000

Hi, just a note, your socket 754 motherboard and CPU will not be able to run its RAM in dual-channel mode. Dual-channel is a socket 939-only feature.