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    Server Barebones Recommendations!?!?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by makaveli72, Aug 20, 2008.

  1. makaveli72

    makaveli72 Eat.My.Shorts

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    Does anyone know where I can find server barebones; could be rack types as well. Any good sites etc. Thanks for all replies.
     
    makaveli72, Aug 20, 2008
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    makaveli72 Eat.My.Shorts

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    Okay I know where I can find them, but does anyone have any recommendations?
     
    makaveli72, Aug 21, 2008
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Get a Tyan motherboard, they are the best ;)

    Go for a dual or quad socket board, cause you can always use one processor and than upgrade to a second one in teh future.

    Most server boards use fb-dimms, and they can be very expensive. Their are only a handful of tyan and supermicro boards which use standard non-ecc ddr2 memory. ecc memory is very expensive, so you may have to buy a board which uses standard memory.

    Some of the recent server boards now have a pci express port, which is nice, cause about a year ago every server board was limited to agp or pci-x.
    I know my Tyan Tomcat has only PCI-X ports, so I use my Matrox Millenium PCI cards (16mb)

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Aug 22, 2008
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    Okay K-Tron thanks alot for the info. This is for my Supervisor :) Any other good site(s) besides NewEgg?
     
    makaveli72, Aug 22, 2008
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    E-wiz, and zipzoomfly also have good deals and parts. You just have to go under the server tabs to find what you are looking for.

    One other thing, check to see what harddrives your company needs. The high end drives use SAS (serial attached scsi) which offers the greatest bandwidth and reliability. SAS drives are really expensive, so if their is a budget, you may want to get a board which has sata ports on it as well, so you can use standard sata drives in the system.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Aug 22, 2008
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    makaveli72 Eat.My.Shorts

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    Ok tks again!
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