[geeks] anyone know about this? 72-core, 48GB computer?

[Lionel Peterson]

Are they available at retail stores yet? I recall looking a couple  
weeks ago and couldn't find them for sale...

A hundred dollar MB with room for 4 Gigs of dual-channel memory, two  
SATA ports, and an IDE port (or three SATA ports) would make a nice  
network appliance box. An expansion slot that can take a dual port  
gigabit NIC (PCI Express X1 or better, PCI-X would work, but would be  
unlikely) would make it an excellent network appliance box, IMHO.

By appliance I'm thinking Untangle, squid caching proxy, etc.

Intel has mini-ITX MBs that take socket 775 CPUs and 4 Gigs and have  
nice expansion options, but they are $150 plus CPU, and consume  
'normal levels' of power...

I'll take a look for the Ion MBs again - thanks,

Lionel

On Oct 1, 2009, at 10:48 PM, "Joshua D. Boyd" <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:

> Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> I want to see an Atom MB that supports 4 Gigs of RAM ;^)
>
> The Nvidia Ion chipset based Atom boards do.  Unfortunately, they do  
> not come with a suitable amount of SATA ports or a PCI-E slot.
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