Quoting Post Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic Whats the difference between server motherboard and PC MB? Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] Quote: from [m]espresso8097[/m] at 6:50 pm on Sep. 5, 2008[quote]With all of that power from the memory and CPU the bottleneck would be with the video card.  Server motherboards usually only have one if any graphics card slots.[/quote] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post jamesc06 Posted at 3:09 pm on Sep. 5, 2008 Other than that most servers have 2 x Xeon processors and 6-8 slots for memory, are there any fundamental differences between a Server motherboard and a PC motherboard? If someone wanted to spend an insane amount of money to make the ultimate gaming computer, they take take a high end server motherboard, load it with with 32 gb ram, dual CPUs, and multiple graphics cards, right? Most of that would be a waste, of course and mostly for bragging purposes.  But it would still be fundamentally the same as a PC?

Replies Jay JWLH Posted at 2:52 am on Sep. 12, 2008 No it wouldn't be worth it. With games they can't usually utilize more than 2 of 4 cores most of the time, so I doubt they could really use more than 1 CPU all together. If anything someone using terminal services to use your computer in the background wouldn't hurt the performance of a game you are playing. SLI or crossfire setups with graphics cards might give you quite good graphics performance, but the CPU is bound to become the bottleneck. Better off getting a good CPU, overclocking it, and using water cooling. Also get solid state drives in RAID, and high performance RAM. To top this all off, only server OS's make use of nearly as much as all this hardware, so you would have to make sure the game plays on that OS. jamesc06 Posted at 7:59 pm on Sep. 5, 2008 Massive waste of money, but you can say you have 128 gb ram. Good project for rich kids with money to waste jamesc06 Posted at 7:58 pm on Sep. 5, 2008 Quote: from espresso8097 at 6:50 pm on Sep. 5, 2008 With all of that power from the memory and CPU the bottleneck would be with the video card.  Server motherboards usually only have one if any graphics card slots. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813151162 PCI-E 16x -- 2 PCI -E 8x --1 PCI-X -- 1 PCI -- 1 Not bad. PCI 16x will support some pretty decent GPUs for quite awhile yet. 128 GB ram 2 x 32. ghz xeons Ultimate multitasking computer. espresso8097 Posted at 6:50 pm on Sep. 5, 2008 With all of that power from the memory and CPU the bottleneck would be with the video card.  Server motherboards usually only have one if any graphics card slots. Light Assassin Posted at 3:12 pm on Sep. 5, 2008 Post from this position was omitted due to content violations All 5 previous replies displayed.