Home Server setup. RAM advice?

[bignev72]

I'm setting up a home server on an old machine. I'm going to VM a small network so will want 24GB RAM which is the maximum the motherboard will hold.

The motherboard in use is this

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6T/#specifications

So I will need 6 x 4GB DDR RAM sticks. The cheapest I can find these new is about £170.

Ideally I want to spend less than that. I've been looking at ebay and I can find some server EEC memory which works out at about £100 for all 6. Not sure if this will work though?

Anyone have any ideas on the best way to go with this?

 

[Bluecube]

From the link you post, the motherboard doesn't support ECC memory. ECC memory is quite specialised and so tends to be restricted to server mobos.

On a slight tangent, do you really need 24Gb?

 

[bignev72]

On a slight tangent, do you really need 24Gb?

Quite simply yes I do. It's going to include about 8 servers and 3 end user machines.