Server MBs

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 15:20, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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.

I am not trying to run them in the same motherboard. I have selected the
ATX motherboard and CPU that I want. What confuses me is that the rack
chassis info say they are for an ATX with a Dual Xeon. I can see that
they can say they support such a thing. But does that mean this is all
the rack supports? I thought ATX defined where the connectors are and
the types of connectors for power and things. The specific CPU should
not really be a concern of the rack chassis. In fact, I have found some
manufacturers that say their racks support ATX MB with Xeon, P4 or PIII.
I think in the other cases (where only Xeon is listed) the manufacturer
is being lazy or assumes their customers know this support (P4 and all)
is implied.

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