<p>I recently printed out Jeff Atwood's <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001157.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Understanding The Hardware</a> blog post and plan on taking it to Fry's Electronics and saying to them "Give me all the parts on these sheets so I can put this together." However, I'm going to be installing 64bit Windows Server 2008 on this machine so before I get all the parts:</p>

<p>Will all this hardware be 64bit Server 2008 compatible? - i.e. all drivers available for this hardware for this OS?</p>

[{'answer_id': 38865, 'author': 'Brad Wilson', 'author_id': 1554, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1554', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Yes, all that stuff should be fine (motherboard and CPU hardware, motherboard drivers, video card drivers).</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 38914, 'author': 'JawnV6', 'author_id': 3869, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3869', 'pm_score': -1, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>You have a $1000 operating system license and you're going to put it on ~$1100 worth of hardware purchased at Fry's and presumably put together by yourself?</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 38921, 'author': 'Andrew Coleson', 'author_id': 2072, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2072', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>Hardware\'s generally pretty OS-agnostic (at least in terms of Windows flavors) these days. Your only concern is getting drivers for other devices (scanners, printers, IR remotes) that won\'t work on 64bit and/or won\'t work on "Server" OSes. Online backup software like Mozy generally won\'t even install on a Server OS, so it depends on what you\'re going to use it for.</p>\n\n<p>That said, if you\'re just going to use it for a home machine, then without even looking at the hardware list Jeff put together, I\'d be confident in saying it\'ll probably work just fine.</p>\n'}]
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