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Originally Posted by DrJ
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.
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SAS options?
and thanks for the clarification...
one more question, other than "bigger" and "faster"
What is the difference?