Quote Originally Posted by Tom128 View Post
What sort of activities require hardware like this, outside of an actual web/SQL/scientific server? I.E. Why are you throwing this beast together?

Since we're on the topic I have a few questions actually haha. I have always been confused by server hardware. I get that server boards support more ram so they cost more, as well as multi-socket, I.O options, etc. I get the price for the server boards.

However why is the ram usually lower speed than desktop counterparts? Why are server CPU's so much more expensive than their desktop counterparts, I've never been able to find any features other than "tested better" and of course multi-socket capabilities (but the single socket parts are also much higher priced).

I love playing with hardware and would probably do something like this if I could find an excuse for it
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