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Is there a any difference between "server motherboards" and the regular ones.


Here are the only differences my eyes found:
* price
* ECC support
 
server mobo's can support a TON of ram, sometimes dual cpus, yes dual CPU's not dual core...
and a lot of the time the form factor is different.. im not sure if im correct in saying so but server motherboards are a bit bigger arent they? for those ATX full towers?
 
Hehe, dont' stop at duel CPUs. What about those quad boards, or even more :D

And yeah, they are usally larger. It's not that they all MUST be in a full sized tower. Most are probably in there to allow for more drives and perhaps better cooling.

They probably also run different chipsets and such that your common PC's board. Also many support 64bit PCI, though I don't know how much longer that'll be around with PCI Express.

Did you try searching around. I think Newegg had a few server motherboards. Or at least higher end workstation boards. You could probably compare specs like that...
 
If you have the $ to spend to fully utilize it, you can get a server board with 2 x PCI-E and make a rather kickass computer. Now wheres that post Praetor made for the 80,000 $ computer?
 
The problem with server boards is they aren't meant totally for speed like current systems are. Many times they have dedicated onboard video, but it's very low end, and then very simple sound cards. I'm sure you could upgrade them, but I just don't like having lots of disabled onboard stuff :P

Also, again, servers are made for stability. So you probably wouldn't get near the speed for the $$$ as you would with a basic desktop.
 
The_Other_One said:
...Did you try searching around. I think Newegg had a few server motherboards. Or at least higher end workstation boards. You could probably compare specs like that...
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Whats the diff between Regular MBroads and Workstation ones?
 
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