Quote Originally Posted by Frogeye View Post
I'm intrigued and hesitant at the same time because I know nothing about building a server. I've only built gaming rigs.

*Pending everything is doable and available while still remaining relatively cheap, I'd be down for 1 board and 4 procs and ram.

I still have questions:

Approximate Cost to make this happen?

How to house the board?

Vid card needed?

OS needed?

PSU needed?

Could you please make a walk through showing exactly how to setup everything once you get your test unit up and running?
Alright let me answer some of your questions.

Vga : There is NO onboard vga. you need to use a single slot (double slot blocks the power button and there is a capacitor that blocks double slot gpu's) vga to have a display connected. I'm sure there is a way to setup a remote control desktop.

motherboard housing : the hole spacing is, I think, proprietary of ARIMA. need to check that. the size is specified somewhere in the thread though (16*13?)

OS : it needs to support 16 cores. ubuntu, any linux distro (except maybe redhat which is licensed). I think you really want to run 64bit stuff on this baby.

PSU : any solid legendary 550w, otherwise you need to get a higher wattage PSU. Single rail ONLY, as you will be connecting the motherboard with 6-pins and 8-pins