Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:42:12 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Chris BeHanna <chris@behanna.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cost of a Bare-Bones Box? Message-ID: <20040118224212.GI65333@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200401141043.04455.chris@behanna.org> References: <200401141043.04455.chris@behanna.org>
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:43:04AM -0500, Chris BeHanna wrote: > Is it possible to build an Opteron-based box for under a grand, if > I re-use my existing NIC, hard disks, and video board (will they even > work?): > > Adaptec 3950U2B hosting a pair of LVD drives > Adaptec 2400A IDE RAID hosting a quartet of WD 120GB Sp. Editions > ATI Radeon 7200 (aka Radeon VIVO) > Netgear FA310TX serving the outside world > Netgear FA302T serving the inside LAN All of this will work. > Can I re-use my 500W ATX power supply? Depends. What power connections does it have? At least the normal 20-pin power + 4-pin secondary power? That is the mininum requirement. > What about my 1GB stick of registered PC2100 ECC? Yes. > Can I get an SMP mobo and just stick one CPU on it for now? Yes. Also note that not all opteron mobos are SMP. I quite like the 1P Tyan Tomcat K8S s2850. > Can I re-use my tower ATX case? Yes (depending on which board you get). You can also build an Athlon64 machine, which would be cheaper and let you use un-registered/buffered RAM. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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