Re: Seeking advice as to what to purchase

[Romanise <joshidm@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 28, 5:43 pm, John Jordan <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> John Jordan

CPUs are lying around and if a server can be built at a cost that is
significantly less than same capacity available in market it will get
fully used.

Thank you for replying.

Regards,
D M Joshi