[SunRescue] Sparc 10 upgading

[Ken Hansen]

Depends on the price you pay for another CPU... If you could get an SM51 for
$50 or so, it would be worth it - $75, maybe. But you need to be very
careful about whatever money you put into it, as you may never get it out
again.

Some more RAM would be a good place to send some money too, but again, watch
the $$ that you spend. I would suggest making sure you *only* buy SS/20
grade RAM, as that can be used in systems all the way through to Ultra 2's -
so it is an investment in a future system, not a "purchase" that will maybe
be worth nearly-nil in a year or so.

An SS/10 with 2xSM51s and 128 Meg (or more) of RAM is a reasonable system
for daily use with recent Solaris releases. You should be able to get there
for about $100:

    $50 for SS/10, 20, Ultra 1, 2 64 Meg DIMM at SuperSellers($40 for
SS/10 - only)

    $50 for second SM51 (est., based on recent Ebay auctions)

Good luck, enjoy!

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Nicewonger" <twmaster at twmaster.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Sparc 10 upgading


> Good god don't get a Blade. What a POS.
>
> You would be better finding s nice used Ultra 1 or 2 or 30 or somthing
> like that.
>
> Mike N
>
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> > Once a certain somebody(cought #$john#$) gets me the shipping cost and
> > I PayPal him money I'll have a SS10 SM51, 64mb ram, GX coming. I plan
> > on running Solaris 2.6 on it; what kind of upgrades are most economical
> > for these things now that the Blades have come out. Putting sm81s in it
> > is not the most economical upgrade, but would another sm51/61/71 and
> > adding another 64mb of ram be worthwhile? Or is my best choice just to
> > save up for a long time and get a low end ultra or save even longer and
> > go for the Blade 100?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mike
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