[Pc_Support] Reliable Opteron Vendor

[Austin Denyer (Ozz)]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:04:36 -0500, William Warren
<hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> I am in the market for an Opteron based server.  I need a dual cpu(not 
> dual core) with 1 gig of ram per processor, dual 80 gig drives, and 3 
> years onsite service(next day is fine).  My budget is $2500.  am i not 
> going to be able to get this at this budget?  I don't want to go Intel 
> for this but if the opteron box won't price Intel is my fallback.

Depends how urgently you need it.

I have a Dual-Opteron 246, 2 gigs of RAM, 2x200Gb SATA HDD - I got it
back in September, and paid ~$2100 from Monarch Computers.  

The machine ROCKS, but Monarch's delivery sucks.  It took them best
part of a month to get it to me.  They are also very slow at answering
pre-sales questions unless you corner them on the phone.

Again, I love their hardware, it is very well put together, but if the
rack servers I ordered recently are anything to go by, by the time they
arrive I've forgotten what I ordered them for.  

They have just lost a $25k server order from me because of delivery and
pre-sales sluggishness - I needed the boxen too quickly, and ended up
paying more money to a different supplier for (in my opinion) inferior
machines.

Basically, if you know what you want, and don't mind waiting for it,
then Monarch are pretty good - great bang for the buck.  Otherwise,
don't bother.

Regards,
Ozz.
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