Motherboard for a VMWare Server box

[Gordo971]

I'm looking to build a box at home to be a VMWare Server box. I'm looking for a good, dependable, very inexpensive motherboard that will handle a LOT of RAM. If it's got a built in RAID solution, that would be cool too.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[Shadow703793]

The rest of the specs? RAM,CPU,etc? 2P? Budget? Please provide more info.

 

[markcohn28]

ASUS M2N-L AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI ATX AMD Opteron 1000 series Dual-Core processor AMD Phenom Quad-Core processor Server Motherboard
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AMD Opteron 1354 Budapest 2.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Socket AM2 75W Quad-Core Processor - OEM

 

[mindless728]

need a budget and what you think a lot of ram is 8GB 16GB....144GB (i know a board that can handle this, its about $500), also i think the ram might be quite a bit more than the motherboard

 

[mindless728]

ASUS M2N-L AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI ATX AMD Opteron 1000 series Dual-Core processor AMD Phenom Quad-Core processor Server Motherboard
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AMD Opteron 1354 Budapest 2.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Socket AM2 75W Quad-Core Processor - OEM

that board doesn't really hold a lot of ram, there are consumer boards that hold more (AM2+ AM3, 16GB, or the LGA1366 with 24GB)

 

[Gordo971]

The rest of the specs? RAM,CPU,etc? 2P? Budget? Please provide more info.

Budget is as cheap as possible, which effects everything else. I'm looking for probably $200 for the mobo and processor and then I'll pile on as much RAM as I can. If I can get up in the 16GB range for the memory that would be way more than enough for what I'm doing.

Thanks.

 

[Shadow703793]

How about 12GB?

My recommendations:
P6T (WS recommended)
6*2GB DDR3 1600
i7 920

Would that be reasonable?

If you want true server:
ASUS Z8NA-D6C (2P board)
2x Intel Xeon E5504
2x DDR3 1333 or 1600. Note: The Z8NA supports both non ECC and ECC. http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=k81cpN8uEB01BpQ6