Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:36:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: Aaron <click46@webpimps.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: looking for ia32 system that supports > 4GB memory and has 64 bit PCI Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108231336240.98652-100000@beppo> In-Reply-To: <20010823143508.A99255@panzer.kdm.org>
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Excellent! One thing I get out of colfax doing this is that they do the burnin. But these are excellent leads! Thanks! On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 13:04:32 -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > Thanks. I've had some really good suggestions. I now have a bid for a 7K$ 8GB > > single 900MHz PIII SuperMicro based system from colfax-intl.com where I > > usually have my one-offs built- this stills seems a tad pricey, but I'll > > probably actually buy it in the 4 procesor version. I noticed that they also > > offered some Tyan solutions as wlel. > > www.microx-press.com has the SuperMicro 8060 system (S2QE6 motherboard in a > Supermicro SC860 (4U rack mount)) chassis for $2974.00. > > You can get 8GB of memory for it for $1670.24 (16 512MB DIMMs) from > www.crucial.com (Micron memory, not cheap-o stuff). Even though that > motherboard only needs PC100 memory, I would probably get PC133 memory > instead since you'd be able to use it in more systems if you don't leave it > all in there. > > The only other thing you'd need to do is figure out what sort of Xeons you > want in the system. Getting four Xeons (at least the more-than-two-proc > kind) will probably be the most expensive part of it. > > Micro X-press has 700MHz 1MB Xeons for $1299, so with four the total for > all that would run about $9840. (Only $5943 with one Xeon.) The only > thing is that those processors are out of stock there, but you could > probably find them (or whatever sort of Xeon) somewhere else. > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Merry > ken@kdm.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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