939 or 940 board with 8 RAM slots? Does one exists?

[SuperFreaky]

I can't find one at newegg or zipzoomfly. Anybody see one?

 

[imported_Tick]

Lots of dual socket boards have 8 slots. Why do you need 8gb of DDR?

 

[w00t]

Originally posted by: Tick
Lots of dual socket boards have 8 slots. Why do you need 8gb of DDR?

I will laugh if he says this computer is for gaming.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

i own a game server that has 8gb of ram

 

[cKGunslinger]

Tyan Thunder K8W

And one at Newegg, and another, and another, and another,a nd another.

 

[rhawk79]

I use it for spreadsheets and word processing and my 8gb's definetly makes it faster

 

[AzNPinkTuv]

lol


spread sheets and word processing takes 8gb? how many instances are u freaking running

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: rhawk79
I use it for spreadsheets and word processing and my 8gb's definetly makes it faster

How large are these spreadsheats and documents?

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Tyan Thunder K8W

And one at Newegg, and another, and another, and another,a nd another.

I think he's looking for 8 slots per socket, but I could be wrong.

 

[batmanuel]

Maybe he's running the special IRS computer that calculates Bill Gates' tax return. Perhaps they need to do an upgrade this tax season.

 

[Malladine]

um

did you just indicate 8gb ram makes spreadsheets and word docs faster? For 10,000 employees all accessing them at the same time maybe...

 

[batmanuel]

SuperFreaky, since cKGunslinger helped you find a motherboard for your monster computer, you'll have to name it Blaine now.

 

[SuperFreaky]

Originally posted by: Tick

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Tyan Thunder K8W

And one at Newegg, and another, and another, and another,a nd another.

I think he's looking for 8 slots per socket, but I could be wrong.

Yeah, I don't really need multiple CPUs. If I only use a single socket can I still address all 8 slots?

 

[alimoalem]

probably not but damn, $400 for a motherboard? lol that's a pretty nice board

w00t, i guess the 8gigs was for gaming

 

[Malladine]

Originally posted by: alimoalem
probably not but damn, $400 for a motherboard? lol that's a pretty nice board

w00t, i guess the 8gigs was for gaming

does the mean you are joking?

 

[SuperFreaky]

Sorry, no games. The 8Gb is for Matlab

 

[JAG87]

what in holy hell are you going to do in matlab that needs 8gb.

i run matlab on the school computers with 512 mb.

are you making a protein structure calculation with your matlab program? maybe you should send your stuff to ibm, they can run it on that 32000 processor computer of theirs for you.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: batmanuel
SuperFreaky, since cKGunslinger helped you find a motherboard for your monster computer, you'll have to name it Blaine now.

:thumbsup:

 

[kpb]

Originally posted by: SuperFreaky

Originally posted by: Tick

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Tyan Thunder K8W

And one at Newegg, and another, and another, and another,a nd another.

I think he's looking for 8 slots per socket, but I could be wrong.

Yeah, I don't really need multiple CPUs. If I only use a single socket can I still address all 8 slots?

You would still need 2 cpu's. For an athlon or opteron the memory controller is in the cpu and each socket has 4 slots so each cpu runs 4 slots. To read the other of it talks to the other cpu.

 

[Madwand1]

You'd need to factor in some more things for a server board -- EPS12V power supply, EATX /SSI form factor case, and possible requirements for registered / ECC DRAM. Coupled with the requirement for 2 CPU's, a 2 GB RAM module setup could actually come out ahead.

Still, I'd love to be running one of these:

http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we.html
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=thunderk8we&page=1

There are lots of alternatives, most from Tyan and Supermicro, each with very different specific requirements and capabilities -- you need to be careful to look ahead with these. Most retailers won't stock these, but they can be ordered.

http://www.tyan.com/products/html/opteron.html