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Lord Olav Rekve III's log on stardate 07 stu 2004
/snipsnipsnip
Well, here is what I recommend, and believe it would certainly satisfy
you for 3 years. I will try to elaborate each component...
Supermicro X6DAL-XG 430$
Traditionally remarkable board, as almost everything that comes from
Supermicro. Dual Xeon Nocona support assures you that you will never
have lack of processor strength and 6 DDR slots gives you up to 12 GB of
DDR 333 RAM. Further more, you have 2 PCI-X 66 MHz slots, so adding fast
storage controllers on video capture devices shouldn't be a problem.
Plus, I'm pretty sure you will be able to put Irwindales (2 MB L2 cache
Noconas) and Paxvilles/Dempseys (dual core Xeons) on this board. Price
is ridiculously small, and format is ATX so you will not have to buy
big, ugly and noisy server cases.
2x Intel Xeon Nocona 2.8 GHz 2x 280$
There is not much to say about that, only the fact that first faster
Xeon (3.0 GHz) cost over 100$ more, and it certainly doesn't worth that
much.
2x 1024 MB DDR 333 ECC Registrated RAM 2x 140$
Since you have only 3k$ budget, it's impossible to buy more RAM than
that. However, this _is_ ECC Reg. RAM after all, which gives a look on
this as a professional workstation... Nevertheless, MBO supports 2 GB
modules, so further upgrading shouldn't be a problem.
Quadro FX1300 800$.
nVidias bang for bucks PCI-E card.
So far, there goes 2100$... :\
Storage... Hmhm, perhaps 2x HT-HDS722516-VLSA80 160 GB SATA HDDs in
RAID0... Speed wouldn't be an issue, or storage capacity. That's 200$.
Chose your own DVD-RW, that's about 100$.
Now, if I haven't missed anything, we have about 300$ left, which gives
us just enough money to buy SC733i case (great case, once you'll see it
you'll love it, http://snipurl.com/aghr) with 645W SSI PSU.
I believe this configuration is faster (two, actually 4 CPUs) and more
reliable (ECC Reg. RAM) with more place to expand (6x DIMM slots and
PCI-X).
/snipsnipsnip
Well, here is what I recommend, and believe it would certainly satisfy
you for 3 years. I will try to elaborate each component...
Supermicro X6DAL-XG 430$
Traditionally remarkable board, as almost everything that comes from
Supermicro. Dual Xeon Nocona support assures you that you will never
have lack of processor strength and 6 DDR slots gives you up to 12 GB of
DDR 333 RAM. Further more, you have 2 PCI-X 66 MHz slots, so adding fast
storage controllers on video capture devices shouldn't be a problem.
Plus, I'm pretty sure you will be able to put Irwindales (2 MB L2 cache
Noconas) and Paxvilles/Dempseys (dual core Xeons) on this board. Price
is ridiculously small, and format is ATX so you will not have to buy
big, ugly and noisy server cases.
2x Intel Xeon Nocona 2.8 GHz 2x 280$
There is not much to say about that, only the fact that first faster
Xeon (3.0 GHz) cost over 100$ more, and it certainly doesn't worth that
much.
2x 1024 MB DDR 333 ECC Registrated RAM 2x 140$
Since you have only 3k$ budget, it's impossible to buy more RAM than
that. However, this _is_ ECC Reg. RAM after all, which gives a look on
this as a professional workstation... Nevertheless, MBO supports 2 GB
modules, so further upgrading shouldn't be a problem.
Quadro FX1300 800$.
nVidias bang for bucks PCI-E card.
So far, there goes 2100$... :\
Storage... Hmhm, perhaps 2x HT-HDS722516-VLSA80 160 GB SATA HDDs in
RAID0... Speed wouldn't be an issue, or storage capacity. That's 200$.
Chose your own DVD-RW, that's about 100$.
Now, if I haven't missed anything, we have about 300$ left, which gives
us just enough money to buy SC733i case (great case, once you'll see it
you'll love it, http://snipurl.com/aghr) with 645W SSI PSU.
I believe this configuration is faster (two, actually 4 CPUs) and more
reliable (ECC Reg. RAM) with more place to expand (6x DIMM slots and
PCI-X).