[olug] Wanted: Intel Hardware Server recomendations

[andrew]

Well, I'll share with everyone the system that I was thinking of 
building.  It's a bit over budget, but it may be worth it to you.

As far as pricewatch goes, I would recommend filtering all vendors 
through resellerratings.com to make sure that they're reputable.  I've 
never been burned, but I've heard stories.

I was looking at an nForce2 mobo (the bare bones model).  The purported 
benefit of this motherboard is that the memory bus matches the FSB speed 
and each dimm slot has it's own address line.  This is supposed to 
increase the memory bandwidth and thusly overall speed.  I could just be 
another victim of really good advertising though, so buyer beware.  :)

newegg.com (a reputable online reseller) has prices listed as follows:

275.00 for the xp 2600 (the one that uses the faster bus)
92.00 for the mobo
30.00 for a cheapo case and ps.

so at 397.00 without ram.  So another 130 for 2 sticks of 
pc2700 at 256MBfor 512MB total.

Or, (too comply with your budget)

$69 (biostar board)
$69 (xp 1800)
$30 for the case
$130 for the memory

$300.00 plus shipping (20 at most).  

I like AMD chips because they're cheap.  I don't know if they're better 
or worse than the intel alternatives, but I know they're not as 
expensive and I guess their PR ratings are pretty close.

Walmart also sells cheapo pc's, but I don't recognize some of the 
components they put in (which makes me nervous to plunk down 199 and 
change).  

my 2 bits.

Andrew
andrew at einer.org
einer.org/forums

William E. Kempf wrote:

>Eric Penne said:
>  
>
>>So what exactly do you need?
>>
>>Case
>>Mobo
>>Processor
>>Memory
>>CD-RW
>>NIC
>>Video Card
>>Floppy?
>>
>>With a budget of $400.
>>
>>Looks like you could go with a P4 setup.  Mobo w/built in video and NIC.
>> Lots of high bandwidth memory.  Maybe some software RAID for improving
>>disk performance.
>>
>>What else do you need on the machine (hardware)?
>>    
>>
>
>I recently bought a "bare bones" box from DIT (which many saw at the
>installfest).  It had a P4 1.8GhZ Celeron processor, with a MB that
>included video, USB, sound, IDE/floppy controllers and 10/100 ethernet. 
>It also had 256 MB of RAM.  Basically everything but monitor, keyboard,
>mouse and drives (HD/CD/DVD/floppy/whatever you need).  Final price tag
>was a surprising (to me) ~$300 (just a little less, after taxes).  I've
>been happy with it so far.
>
>William E. Kempf
>wekempf at cox.net
>
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