Looky here

[Daniel]

Tyan S2450 Dual Socket 462 - $189
2x AMD Athlon Palomino MP 1800+ - $298
1024MB DDR PC2100 RAM - $302
2x KTI KG-600T 10/100/100Base-T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter - $160
Antec SL450 450W ATX PSU - $68
ATI Xpert 32MB AGP Pro - $39
Seagate 18.4GB 10k RPM SCSI hardrive - $169
2x WD 80 7200RPM harddrives - $218
Full Tower Case - $56
Standard CD-Rom 56x - $29
Red Hat Linux 7.3 - Free

Building this computer using friend's funds - Priceless

For somethings there's money, for others, there's MasterCard. Accepted at most major online retailers worldwide.

A friend of mine needs a new server to colocate yet he can't build stuff worth jack. :D


Grand total of the server comes up to $1368 USD.

[Ben]

Are those prices USD or CAD, because over here CompUSA was advertising on the radio that their WD 7200 RPM 80GB hard drives were on sale at $89 each.

And why settle for a measly 32MB card....why not go with a Radeon 9700 Pro :devious2:

[Bruce]

Originally posted by Ben

And why settle for a measly 32MB card....why not go with a Radeon 9700 Pro :devious2: It's a server... you don't really need anything more than an 8MB card in reality.

[Ben]

Originally posted by Bruce
It's a server... you don't really need anything more than an 8MB card in reality.
Oh it's a server? My (stupid) mistake....:eek:

[Bruce]

A friend of mine need's a new server to colocate;)

[Daniel]

Originally posted by Ben
Are those prices USD or CAD, because over here CompUSA was advertising on the radio that their WD 7200 RPM 80GB hard drives were on sale at $89 each.

And why settle for a measly 32MB card....why not go with a Radeon 9700 Pro :devious2:

It's USD prices. And remember, it's 2 80GB WD 7200rpm harddrives. Along with a seagate 10k rpm harddrive.

And why would a server need a Radeon 9700 Pro? :confused:

Grand total of the server comes up to $1368 USD.

[Robert]

I'm not impressed at all.

I could build the same exact system for $800-$900 dollars.

If your gonna invest that much into a server, go ahead and buy a real one from Dell (they are around $300-$2500).

[Daniel]

Where would you get the parts for that server? I haven't built it yet, soon, I'll start.

[trenzterra]

Originally posted by Bruce
It's a server... you don't really need anything more than an 8MB card in reality. yeah I survived on 4mb video ram for a year.

[Daniel]

Damnit, my post got deleted...and I don't see what was wrong with it.

Trenz, I remember the days when computers had only 256k of ram, that's including the video ram back then.

[Dusty]

Now why exactly were those posts deleted? It can't possibly be because they were off topic, after all, what is the topic here? Daniel made a statement about a computer he built with someone else's money. Period. No topic for discussion, everything that follows is "off-topic". I'm surprised the thread wasn't also locked for having "finished".

Here's mine again, late readers will just have to imagine what the others said (my reply was to Sonichost, who said in his day computer's had 256k RAM total, which was in reply to Daniel, who said in his day computer's had 256k video RAM, which was in reply to Trenz, whose, oddly enough, comment wasn't deleted):
Before he was born, we were using our fingers to draw ones and zeros in the sand. I can remember before then, though: Back before zero was discovered, it was all ones.

We couldn't draw to well, either. Complicated, intricate figures like ones took days to work out-- weeks sometimes, depending on how big it was. After the zero came along... god, that was too much for one man to remember. The whole cave had to chip in to keep it all straight.

[Jan]

Originally posted by Dusty
Now why exactly were those posts deleted? It can't possibly be because they were off topic, after all, what is the topic here?
Indeed, maybe in future such posts can be confined to general discussions. :confused2