# Technical specs for the board?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-specs-for-the-board/125201>\
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**Created:** [August 23, 2002, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-specs-for-the-board/125201 "2002-08-23T09:25:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-specs-for-the-board/125201/1 "2002-08-23T09:25:13Z")

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Asking a question on behalf of the elusive **fella bilong missus flodnak** :

What sort of hardware is needed to run a board of this size? He was mostly curious about the Big Four: bandwidth for the connection, the amount of memory, the amount of disk space, and the CPU speed. Since he’s an alpha geek and I’m definitely not, I may have phrased that wrong, my apologies.

Hope I’m not asking for any trade secrets here 😃

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-specs-for-the-board/125201/2 "2002-08-23T13:14:37Z")

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Quick answer (that doesn’t involve any searching on MY part 😃 ) is to Search for Jerry the Tech God’s posts here in ATMB for Any Date (that’s [JDavis](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=1604).) I know that every time somebody asks this, he generally shows up with the specs graven into two stone tablets, thunder and lightning, etc.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-specs-for-the-board/125201/3 "2002-08-23T16:42:44Z")

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You need an electronic computing device of some kind (more than an abacus! that’s a common mistake) and some sort of electrical wire that will connect you to this thingie of connected computers called the internet.  
jdavis has posted in the past the hardware set-up for the SDMB, but as we all know, it’s insufficient to have satisfactory performance at high volumes for a board of this size. Perhaps you can get some ideas at the vBulletin forums or at their webpage. [http://www.vbulletin.com](http://www.vbulletin.com)