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Originally Posted by Albromor
Z, great choice on RAM! G.Skill is a Tier 1 memory maker. The next build I do will be using either their product or Kingston's Hyper X memory.
If you don't mind me asking, what motherboard and cpu did you go with?
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I went with the second best MB--didn't need a beast SLI board for the server, but most good motherboards have SLI tech now)
EVGA E758-A1 3-Way SLI (x16/x16/x8) LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
(The only sucky thing is NO floppy controller on board, so installing XP or W2K3, I had to buy a damn USB floppy drive--for raid drivers... ugh the ONLY time I ever use floppy too)
And an overclocker king--and priced well: Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz
Running it at 3.2Ghz on AIR and temps are only 2c above normal idle on a stock cpu!
I decided on this board because of the triple channel memory for the server. I have 4 gig in now, but as soon as I can afford it, I'll get 2 more gig to make use of 3 channels.. 6 gigs (board has 6 ram ports) can hold a total of 12gig!
I got this as the cheap server video card:
EVGA GeForce 7200GS 512MB GDDR2 PCI Express x16
lol... $32! I remember a voodoo 4 MEGABYTE card being $349! hehe... I was surprised at the 512 ram.. not bad! Memory IS cheap as heck these days...
A few years ago, I also used pqi Ram.. very fast!