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Hi all!

Are there any MoBo's out there with onboard graphics, and capable of supporting 16GB of memory? Preferably one that can take the Intel Q6600 CPU.


Any suggestions?



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If you're going with onboard graphics I'd really go with AMD. Else just pick up a $50 graphics card to go with your intel board.

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MrsBytch wrote :

What on earth would you want 16gb of memory for? 8gb would be major overkill.
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Why overkill? It's going to be the a VMware host, so the more memory, the better...



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Do you realize that the 16gb of memory alone would cost you about $1000.

The 4gb Dimms which whould be required have just been released and are priced crazy expensive.

You would be better off with a Workstation Device at this point which have more Dimm slots.

But a more direct answer, is that the only Chipset that supports Intel Chips and 16gb of memory at this point are the P45 boards which don't have on-board graphics.

Some AMD solutions have both.
However, none of the Motherboards has more than 4 Dimm slots so the price of memory will be crazy.

Technically some boards have more than 4 slots, but in such cases they are simply to allow for the use of DDR2 or DDR3. You cannot populate all of the slots at any point in time.


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OK for that kinda thing you'd need a Intel Xeon processor on a socket 771 motherboard. As far as the onboard graphics go, rather get a cheap PCI or
PCI-E graphics card just to shift the graphics memory "out" of the system memory.

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The P45 chipset is supposed to come out with an onboard graphics solution soon. G45 I think it's called. That may have 16Gb RAM support, and will support quads.

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Perhaps I'll just wait for the G45 then :-)

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yeah i've only seen amd boards with 16GB of graphics support with onboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128341

If you have the bank to buy 16GB of ram, what's keeping you from just getting a cheapo graphics card?
This HD2600 pro would be great. if your going to be running multiple vm wares you may want to setup up multimonitors.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814121087

Coupled with this mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813130181

you'd have a decent little 1 station network to play with.

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Get a $20 bottom feeder graphics card. Since this widens your choices of motherboards, you'll probably get a good deal that more than offsets the $20.


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Q6600@3.6ghz, GA-EX38-DS4 X38 chipset motherboard, 8gb 800mhz ddr2 4-3-3-12, 8800GTS(g92)@780mhz, 1TB 7200rpm 32mb cache hdd, 850watt 12v rails=4x20amp powersupply
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Even cheapo cards take up space and block airflows to some extent... ;-)


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evert wrote :

Even cheapo cards take up space and block airflows to some extent... ;-)


Then you have to switch to AMD. It doesn't exist for Intel.


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Q6600@3.6ghz, GA-EX38-DS4 X38 chipset motherboard, 8gb 800mhz ddr2 4-3-3-12, 8800GTS(g92)@780mhz, 1TB 7200rpm 32mb cache hdd, 850watt 12v rails=4x20amp powersupply

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