Demolished

Looking to use the card as extra memory and not a pass through, would prefer it shows up as the four graphics cards it is. Windows 10 64 bit.

That's actually pretty reasonable price wise, considering my computer cost literally 6k 3 years ago, getting half that power for ~600 would be nice. There are a ton of miner cards that it looks like I'd be able to pick up to fill the graphics card dilemma too for about 100$ each. The cards basically need ~8Gb of VRam to be reasonable, not sure what AMD's crossfire does in terms of two cards VRam though, because Nvidia sucks with it.

So a quick bit of background, my current PC (Intel 6950X, 128GB Ram, GTX 1080) is capable of running up to 70 world of warcraft clients before the computer literally panics and starts crashing in all sorts of odd ways. I have heavily modified the wow clients to use next to 0 processing or graphical power. However the thing I cannot get around whatsoever is memory usage, both vram and ram. So with this, the most logical route is going for servers rather than faster computers, as it doesn't need a fast processor, just lots of cores and memory. So with any information that people have today, I'm trying to find the cheapest builds I can go with to build several servers that can handle as many wow clients as possible. I honestly believe we could even go back to Intel Xeon E5 series chips, DDR2 Ram, etc. I am just having a hard time finding these things together, let alone working. So what I'm looking for... Dual socket CPU board, that has processors over 2Ghz with as many cores as possible, and capable of 128Gb of Ram. 128Gb of compatible ECC or FB ram. Some old graphics cards that have/had a ton of VRam. I'm honestly looking for most clients per dollar, and nothing more. I don't care how old the stuff is, I don't care how cheap/expensive it is. Obviously if I wait until the 64core threadripper comes out I could easily double my number of clients, but RAM is still a bottleneck. Sorry for the rant/TMI, just don't want to confuse anyone about what I'm trying to do. So I don't need a build persay, just an idea of what is still readily available and cheap. Thanks in advance to any ideas people have!