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Originally Posted by DrJ View Post
No, not really. They use server-like boards, with ECC-Reg memory, often with more than one (good!) Ethernet port, have SAS options, and can handle huge amounts of memory. The S5397 I mentioned can take 128GB memory, for example. They have dual CPUs as a rule, and usually are huge (E-ATX form factors).

For one example, see http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en...1-3432827.html

There is only one "server" chip family that you can put in a consumer board: the 3xxx Xeon series. That is just a Q6600 relabel, and so it really does not count.

You can't put in a server processor into a consumer board. Doesn't work. Intel wants to protect their Xeon franchise, after all.
SAS options?

and thanks for the clarification...

one more question, other than "bigger" and "faster"

What is the difference?
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