[geeks] sun ultra 24

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: nate at portents.com
>Date: 2007/10/16 Tue PM 04:15:09 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] sun ultra 24

>> I seriously doubt you'll find 8 memory slots on anything less than a
>> E-ATX.
>
>None that I know of exist.

Six DIMM slots on an ATX format MB:

http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000X/X7DAL-E+.cfm

>> The folks at Dell, HP, Apple, IBM, Sun, etc might be able to get such a
>> board custom-made, but you and I? Nope.
>
>Apple uses FB-DIMM riser cards with their own dedicated airflow path and
>specifies some pretty beefy heatsinks for each module.
>
>What nobody has mentioned so far is that if Sun goes with an Intel desktop
>chipset that supports DDR3, there will, in the future, be JDEC standard
>4GB DDR3 memory modules, which means that the max RAM for four DDR3 slots
>will be 16GB eventually.

How about 192 Meg out of 24 DIMM sockets, accepting 8 Gig DIMMs:

http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon7000/7300/X7QC3.cfm

Lionel