[TriLUG] VMware question

[Jim Ray]

yeah, seems like those gig sticks were up over 3 bills last time i
checked.  business has been really good this month.  one of my clients
had major computer problems with a bunch of microsoft products.  go
figure.

so, supermicro makes the goods?  i was leaning toward that ddr stuff if
it, indeed, gives twice the throughput so my uproc doesn't have to sit
around executing wait states.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Johnson [mailto:mike at enoch.org]
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:59 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] VMware question


Jim Ray [jim at neuse.net] wrote:
> alright.  i'm a believer.  time to go motherboard shopping to get over
> my 512 MB limitation.  let's see.  i've never had any issues running
> 512 MB per os.  hmmm.  8*512MB=4 GB.  that's a lot of ram.  who makes
> a good motherboard with everything integrated into the same backplane
> that will handle that much memory?

This is where you get to choose where to spend your money.  If you want
to go cheap on the motherboard, you can get a system with four DIMM
slots that'll handly 4GB of RAM.  However, that means you have to
purchase 1GB DIMMs, which are not cheap.  Your other option is to spend
a bit more on the motherboard and get one with eight (or more) DIMM
slots, which would allow you to buy 512MB DIMMs.  Either way, cramming
4GB of RAM into a system is not cheap.

For boards with more than four DIMM slots, check out Supermicro.

Mike
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