high-end motherboards

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:00:09 GMT, jseyb
<DoNotReply@jseyb.info> wrote:

>On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:12:43 -0400, Mike Walsh <spamscks@netrox.net>
>wrote:
>
>>
>>Nonsense. Any decent server board, including those with Core2 Duo processors, support ECC memory.
>>
>>DaveW wrote:
>>>
>>> Core 2 Duo CPU's do not, I believe work with ECC RAM.
>
>I'd seen that before, but don't know where to get a decent server
>board that I could use for Windows XP now. If I'd bought it before
>Vista came out, maybe. Anyone know of decent server motherboard or
>system with XP?


?? AFAIK, there are no boards that don't have WinXP
support. By boards I meant mainstream server or PC boards,
not some industrial who-knows-what.

The only real limiter regarding XP is whether you could buy
a preassembled PC with XP license in some particular config
from some particular OEM... since some don't offer XP
anymore.

You don't need a server board for ECC support though, as has
already been mentioned in this thread.

"jseyb" <DoNotReply@jseyb.info> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:12:43 -0400, Mike Walsh <spamscks@netrox.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>Nonsense. Any decent server board, including those with Core2 Duo
>>processors, support ECC memory.
>>
>>DaveW wrote:
>>>
>>> Core 2 Duo CPU's do not, I believe work with ECC RAM.
>
> I'd seen that before, but don't know where to get a decent server
> board that I could use for Windows XP now. If I'd bought it before
> Vista came out, maybe. Anyone know of decent server motherboard or
> system with XP?

You do not want to build a dedicated server, so forget server boards as they
will be expensive, include things that you do not need, like 64-bit PCI-X
slots, and possibly not be of the ATX standard.

ss.