From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 23 19: 1:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from anaconda.acceleratedweb.net (anaconda.acceleratedweb.net [209.51.164.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A5BE37B401 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:01:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Received: (qmail 3787 invoked by uid 106); 24 Aug 2001 02:01:49 -0000 Received: from 66-65-36-21.nyc.rr.com (HELO sharky) (66.65.36.21) by anaconda.acceleratedweb.net with SMTP; 24 Aug 2001 02:01:49 -0000 From: "Simon" To: "Kenneth D. Merry" , "Matthew Jacob" Cc: "Aaron" , "freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:01:59 -0400 Reply-To: "Simon" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195) In-Reply-To: <20010823143508.A99255@panzer.kdm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: looking for ia32 system that supports > 4GB memory and has 64 bit PCI Message-Id: <20010824020150.1A5BE37B401@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quad CPU & 8GB of RAM, what OS? On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:35:08 -0600, 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message