It is a dual socket board with ECC memory and some servers actually can have much more memory than that using fully buffered memory modules in big memory racks. So it is actually just 128GB per socket so it isn’t as insane as it sounds. The reason why regular PCs have lower limits on the memory is that many server…

Trade shows. It is for Kingston’s CES2016 booth.

With a CPU burn test and GPU burn test it will trip their 15A circuit breaker for sure. I hope they tell their booth they need a dedicated 20A circuit for the PC as it would be bad press for it to kill the power to the Kingston booth constantly at CES which is where it is going.

Don’t worry they have cheater cables that take the PSU’s 20A IEC connector to a regular 15A plug for extra fire inducement. They even did this for their entire server rack with UPSes that have 20A connections. The crazy bit is that they custom built the office just a few months ago and could have easily speced 20A…