Re: Seeking advice as to what to purchase

[John Jordan <junk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Romanise wrote:
> Can someone guide me on following.
>
> I have 2 CPUs Intel 2GHz Xeon QC E5335.
>
> Need  advise  as to what motherboard, power supply, cards I need to
> buy to make a Server PC.

You need a dual-socket S771 motherboard like these:
http://scan.co.uk/Index.aspx?NT=1-0-92-400-0

These only take FBDIMMS (fully buffered) rather than normal DDR2:
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT2KIT25672AF667

Dual-socket S771 boards usually need an EPS power supply, which is like 
ATX 2.x except that the CPU power is provided by an 8-pin rather than a 
4-pin connector:
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=3XF5

Cards are all standard.

Note that due to the price of the board and the RAM, there's not really 
any reason to build such a system unless you really need 8 cores or >8GB 
RAM.


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John Jordan