Can you use a server mobo in a regular desktop? and does windows 7 have multi prosseser support?

Yes, you can use a server motherboard in a desktop... and windows 7 professional and ultimate you can have two physical processors (also no limit on the cores as I understand it, so you could have two quad cores if you wanted) and up to 128 GB RAM on the 64-bit edition (which Id suggest).

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/For ... 91731080c9

Hope that answers it for you.
Damn, Im in a helpful mood today!

i think im gettin a sever mobo!
and thanks for the help halla

other than multiple CPU's is there a reason for getting a server mobo? are you planning on getting xeon CPU's or something or just plan to run it into the ground?

well i got the windows server 2008 r2 for free from dreamspark (totally leagal for students) so i have been wanting to try that out on somthing besides a vm. and i wanna mess around with servers a bit. and i would be getting the xeon quad cores

if you're going th full server route are you getting tape drives and raid controllers etc? but to answer your first question yes you can ;P

honistly i dont know a whole lot about servers and thats why i want to get one. so i really dont know what a tape ddrive is i just put server 2008 in a vm and i want to mess around with it on a bigger scale than just a vm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless_system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_rack
http://librenix.com/?inode=1111
http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/2007/06/05 ... n_server/1



A server is a computer designed and configured for handling multiple users at the same time and "serving" services (www, ftp, shoutcast radio). Which means that the hardware for a server is fine tuned for not a single user behind the box (in fact, the administrator is also a connecting user), but many. This means a server usually has a minimal video card but faster disks and memory, multiple network interfaces and a system running that fits the serving part. Adding funky hardware doesn't make a machine a server. It is the services that makes it a server.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_boot
http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2 ... rver-2008/

If you really want to push up your techie nerdie skills, try a UNIX or clone (Linux) instead of windows server.

Linux:
http://www.debian.org
http://www.ubuntu.com
http://www.gentoo.org
http://www.novell.com/linux

FreeBSD (UNIX)
http://www.freebsd.org/
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
http://www.unix.org/

i will try unix. hopfully whaen i get a server put together

chicks dig unix.... but in all seriousness you get to know solaris it'll open up doors for you later on

Sure, now that Solaris is owned by Oracle things are sure to go great!


Ubuntu is a great Linux distribution for beginners. I've also heard great things about Arch for being extremely easy to setup although I'm not sure about it's multiple processor support.

• Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/
• Arch: http://www.archlinux.org/

EDIT: Ubuntu does support SMP (Symmetrical processing), still can't find anything about Arch and multiple processor support.