Yeah, I've got a quad dual-core Opteron box. The processors aren't cheap, but since these are "enterprise servers", the manufacturers more than make up for it. Only a fool or a gamer would pay more than $2000 for a box, but corporations think nothing of shelling out $20,000 for one. Four dual core Operteons, 16 GB of memory and a 100 GB hard drive with two piddly performance Intel Gb NICs.
Most custom system builders just throw in a hard drive for base systems. If your looking for a custom builder to say throw in a 73GB 10k SAS or SCSI drive for a base system, then dream on. Those drives cost ALOT of money while SATA drives can be bought in bulk for pennies on the dollar.
Intel Core i7 I7-920 Quad Core Processor (2.66GHz, 4x256kB, 4.8GT/s QPI, LGA 1336 Socket B)
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core Processor (3.4GHz, 6MB L3 Cache, 4x512KB L2 Cache, 2000 MHz Bus, Socket AM3)
Asus P7P55D Motherboard (Intel Socket H LGA1156, P55 Express, ATX, 16GB DDR3)
Intel Core i5 750 Qaud Core Processor (2.66GHz, 8MB L3 Cache, 2.5 GT/s Bus, Socket H LGA1156)
Asus M4A785TD-V EVO AMD 785G/SB710 Socket AM3 ATX Motherboard
AMD's Opteron goes to 3.2GHz
Dillon Pyron
8224 SE #
Posted Monday 6th August 2007 18:58 GMT
Yeah, I've got a quad dual-core Opteron box. The processors aren't cheap, but since these are "enterprise servers", the manufacturers more than make up for it. Only a fool or a gamer would pay more than $2000 for a box, but corporations think nothing of shelling out $20,000 for one. Four dual core Operteons, 16 GB of memory and a 100 GB hard drive with two piddly performance Intel Gb NICs.
100 GB! What is this, a mid line laptop?
Anonymous Coward
RE: 8224 SE comment #
Posted Monday 6th August 2007 19:31 GMT
Most custom system builders just throw in a hard drive for base systems. If your looking for a custom builder to say throw in a 73GB 10k SAS or SCSI drive for a base system, then dream on. Those drives cost ALOT of money while SATA drives can be bought in bulk for pennies on the dollar.