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Valen
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 07 Jul 2004
Posts: 4436
Location: Sydney
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heh 15k should get you quad cpu/8core these days.
at a minimum
if you dont need the fancy graphics, you could probbly go 8 cpu/16core 64bit opterons. a whole bunch of SATA raid hdds (though pci-X scsi *might* be fast enough not to bottleneck, you want SATA out of the chipset so you are on the hypertransport backbone which you arent going to saturate, you want the gigabit ethernet port on the same too so you dont saturate it.)
pre packaged base
http://www.i-tech.com.au/products/8471_Tyan_Transport_VX50_B4881V50S4H_4P.asp
call it $10k landed
add stuff
A-OSA-250
8x AMD Opteron 250 BOX, Socket 940, Server, Retail $3058
16x KingMax DDR-SDRAM DDR400 PC3200 1.0GB, SuperRAM $2200
4x HDD SATA, Western Digital, 320GB, Caviar SE, SATA 1.5Gb/s, 8MB $704
$5962
$16k all up
640GB hdd (raid mirroring), 16GB of ram, 8 cpu cores ;->
if you DIY a little more wrt case (keeping in mind that 4 the mbo is atx)
mbo is worth $3032
so our $15 k budget has $6000 left
well say $1000 for case and PSU
$5000 left
add another 4 cores and 16GB of ram
we are even on budget, blow it by $1k for the addon board for that tyan mbo and yer set
$16k for 16core 36gb ram in a funky little atx box ;->
all at rrp in onsies ;-> _________________ Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
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Knightrous
Site Admin
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 8511
Location: NSW
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<RANT>
Well this morning was a real kick into the teeth... One of the Agronomists thought it would be fun to blame the contract tehnician for his comuter blowing up a week ago...
When I serviced the computers in that store around 2 weeks ago, I found his computer powered off, I had a quick clean out of the internals and soon found the PSU had a fried fan and it didn't work any more... A new PSU was bought that day, I installed it and the system have some video issues, hard drives we're powering up, normal beep from the bios, but no screen display. Alright, I'll just head home and rip a S3 Trio out of a crap box in my junk pile at home...
Brought in the replacement card and installed it. same crap as the day before, I alerted the manager. She said it was okay, the agronomist was getting a new laptop the following week. I was just asked to take the HDD with me and back up all the data onto CD's for her. Which I did and brought back the following day... I then didn't have any phone calls or emails from work... Which is okay... except I get no money!
So I've been working my ass off the last few days, as explained in previous post.. Today I get in there and start setting the agronomists emails up on his new laptop to come in from the email server. He then proceeded to have a shot at me for his computer breaking down and him missing 4 days work using quite a few f's and c's along the way Talk about an ass...
Coolest thing was, he was shooting off his mouth about it in the lunch room today and the regional managers wife heard him, and that got back to the regional manager who is a family friend of mine
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Every doggy has his day... Don't bite the system admin hand that feeds your network _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
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