From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 14 07:50:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A7B416A4E0 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:50:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from bragi.housing.ufl.edu (bragi.housing.ufl.edu [128.227.47.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 212BE43D7D for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:50:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from WillS@housing.ufl.edu) content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:50:20 -0500 Message-ID: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8CBBE10@bragi.housing.ufl.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Cost of a Bare-Bones Box? Thread-Index: AcPatTyZrfJQJgmwQzOWeQPUdbNEDgAACZkg From: "Will Saxon" To: , Subject: RE: Cost of a Bare-Bones Box? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:50:27 -0000 > 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?): >=20 > 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 >=20 > Can I re-use my 500W ATX power supply? What about my 1GB stick of > registered PC2100 ECC? Can I get an SMP mobo and just stick one CPU > on it for now? >=20 > Can I re-use my tower ATX case? >=20 > This is being driven by the death of my wife's and son's XP box. > I'm thinking of swapping my workstation out to them and building > myself a spiffy new box, or swapping my crashbox out to them, my > workstation out to my crashbox, and building myself a spiffy new box. It should be doable. If you used an Opteron 240 on an MSI K8T = Master2-FAR board you would spend ~$600. That board is ATX-sized so it doesn't = require any special case. Your RAM is too slow, and I don't know if you can run the memory bus=20 asynchronously, so if it were me I would figure on buying more RAM. I = think you can get 1GB of Corsair Registered ECC DDR400 in a 'matched pair' of=20 512MB modules for less than $400, so that would put you under your = spending limit. I am not sure that would be a particularly effective use of $1000 = though. -Will