[geeks] Cheap Octocore

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com>
>Date: 2007/10/22 Mon PM 07:44:43 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Cheap Octocore

>On 10/22/07, Michael Dombrowski <ab1244 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> "Dell Small Business offers the Dell PowerEdge SC1430
>> 8-Core Xeon 1.6GHz Server for $729. With $19 for
>
>
>That's pretty slick. With a little work it could be a bitchin' hackintosh. I
>don't think it could outrun work's 15K, but it could probably support our
>production DB!
>
>I wonder if it has PCIE or AGP slots for graphics... could be a killer game
>system, too.

Per Page 10-14 of the Getting Started Guide it has:

One 32 bit, 33 MHz PCI slot (Full Length, Full Height)

Two 64 bit, 100 MHz PCI-X slots (one FH/FL, one FH/HL)

Two 64 bit, x4 Lane Width PCI-Express slots (x8 sockets) (one FH/FL, one FH/HL)

and a 750 Watt PS

A third HD can be placed in the floppy bay, and a fourth can be accomodated in the second optical bay, but expansion above two HDs would require an add-in controller, as the MB only has two SATA connections.

An upgraded video card is possible, but you'd have to constrain yourself to either PCI form card (Yech) or look for an x4 PCI-E card (like the Matrox G550 PCI-E, an x1 card - Matrox has a couple x1 PCI-Express video cards)...

Interesting...
Lionel