[geeks] sun ultra 24

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Phil Brutsche <phil at tux.obix.com>
>Date: 2007/10/16 Tue PM 03:54:57 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] sun ultra 24

>nate at portents.com wrote:
>> Those are both Extended-ATX form factor motherboards that won't fit into
>> standard desktop cases
>
>I seriously doubt you'll find 8 memory slots on anything less than a E-ATX.
>
>The folks at Dell, HP, Apple, IBM, Sun, etc might be able to get such a
>board custom-made, but you and I? Nope.

Damn - this is some board:

http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon7000/7300/X7QC3.cfm

It has a stated capacity of 192 Gigs of RAM out of 24 memory sockets.

Yowza!

Lionel