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Subject: Re: Rackmount MP AMD boxes?
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Hi,

gnn@freebsd.org wrote:
> At Sun, 15 May 2005 12:42:03 +0800,
> Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
>>gnn@freebsd.org wrote:
>>
> I'm thinking $2000 total, board, box, processors, memory and a disk.
> I'd like to go lower of course but doubt it since I want two
> processors ;-)
> 
A Tyan Tiger is some 300, a Thunder is double the price.

Tiger	300
Opteron	600 for 2
Disk	100

plus casing, RAM, so it will be well below 2000.

This is an estimate as I do not have US prices.
> 
>>If money does not limit you, Sun has some nice Fire boxes with 2 or 4 
>>CPUs (V20z & V40z).
> 
> 
> Heh.

http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/index.jsp

But this is out of the range of some 2k.

Erich