Help: Looking for S939 MB with 8Gb+ non-ecc capacity

[rningramuk]

Hi Im looking for a server or workstation board with loads of ram capacity.
I can find lots of opteron boards that handle up to 24gb, but they all eat ecc/reg dimms and cost a bundle.
I need a unbuffered non-ecc board that handles loads of ram.
Best find so far is an ABIT SV-1A, but I cant find anyone in the UK who sells these.
Also its only got 4 slots, so I would have to buy mega pricey 2gb dimms.

Ideally a board with 8 slots would be nice, so I can get 8x1gb dimms in and upgrade to 2gb dimms when the price falls, or I need more ram.

System is for a Monster VMWARE box. To consolodate all our development servers onto.

Can anyone suggest any other brands or any upcoming releases?

Ta
Richard

 

[Slaimus]

That is not possible. With 8Gb would require more ICs than an unbuffered memory controller can handle.

 

[rningramuk]

Ok, cool. Hence the 4 slots with 4 dimms on the sv-1a taking 2gb dimms only.

 

[Insomniak]

Originally posted by: Slaimus
That is not possible. With 8Gb would require more ICs than an unbuffered memory controller can handle.