Server MBs

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>
> Dumb question here:
>
> I am looking at 19" rack mount chassis that can hold 6, 8 or however
> many more SATA disks. These seem to be common; however, it seems that
> all suppliers list that the systems are for Dual Xeon ATX MB. Well, I do
> not want Dual Xeon. I want a P4 ATX MB (as in an ASUS P4C800-Deluxe).
> Could I expect this to work? Could it be that the Dual Xeon info is just
> letting me know I can put that in, but a P4 MB should work as well?
> These are not coming with the MB. I will be adding that.
>
> I am asking various manufacturers this, but I want to know NOW!!
>
> Anyone know about this sort of thing?

Generally speaking i don't think you can run Xeons and P4s in the same
motherboard, as they have different numbers of pins.  The P4C800 you
mentioned certainly can't take Xeons.

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