[Pc_Support] Hardware recommendations -- Revisited ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 09:17 -0700, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Dual-processor Opteron
> - Lian Li PCV-1200 Aluminum Flip-EATX Tower      $ 200
> - (various) 500-600W EPS12V Power Supply         $ 100
> - Tyan S2895A2NRF "Thunder K8WE" 2200+2050+8131  $ 450
> - (2) Opteron 246HE 55W 2.0GHz/2x1M Rev E        $ 500
> - (4) 512MB Registered ECC DDR400/PC3200 Memory  $ 500
> - (2) WD1600SD 160GB "Caviar RE 24x7" SATA       $ 200
> - LG GSA-4167B (Black) DVD-RAM/R/RW/+RW/+R DL    $  45
> - Mitsumi FA404A/404M (Black) 1.44MB/9-in-1      $  25
> - GeForce 6600GT 128MB DDR PCIe-x16              $ 140
>                                                 -------
>                                                 $2,360

Let's revisit that with the Aerocool Spiral Galaxies case and 256MB
Registered DDR333 SDRAM ...

Dual-processor Opteron
- Aerocool Spiral Galaxies Flipped ATX Case      $ 100
- (various) 500-600W EPS12V Power Supply         $ 100
- Tyan S2895A2NRF "Thunder K8WE" 2200+2050+8131  $ 450
- (2) Opteron 246HE 55W 2.0GHz/2x1M Rev E        $ 500
- (8) 256MB Registered ECC DDR333/PC2700 Memory  $ 240
- (2) WD1600SD 160GB "Caviar RE 24x7" SATA       $ 200
- LG GSA-4167B (Black) DVD-RAM/R/RW/+RW/+R DL    $  45
- Mitsumi FA404A/404M (Black) 1.44MB/9-in-1      $  25
- GeForce 6600GT 128MB DDR PCIe-x16              $ 140
                                                -------
                                                $2,000

> Options (Additional):
> - 3Ware Escalade 8006-2 PCI64/66 RAID-0/1 card   $ 150
> Options (Replacement):  
> - (1) Tyan S2895UA2NRF w/2x U320 SCSI            $+ 75
> - (2) Opteron 265 dual-core 1.8GHz/2x1M Rev E    $+800
> - (4) 1GB Registered ECC DDR400/PC3200 Memory    $+250
> - (2) ST3250623NS 250GB "NL35 24x7" SATA         $+100
> - (2) WD3200SD 320GB "Caviar RE 24x7" SATA       $+150

Now if we could only shave off a little more, you could go dual-Socket
w/dual-Core bay-bee!


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Bryan J. Smith     b.j.smith at ieee.org     http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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