On Friday 24 June 2005 00:37, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
P.S. If you think you're going to get a dual-Opteron mainboard for under $300, it's near impossible. The only ones that are under $300 typically lack an AMD8131 -- i.e., _no_ PCI-X channels. You'd be better off getting a $100 Athlon64 nForce mainboard with an Athlon64x2 4200+ and a PCIe x4 or PCIe x8 storage controller instead.
Here we go again with that UPS guy though... other than the Intel 2ch scsi controller and emulex fibre cards there isn't much out there. And all those options fit into a nice $40K server - but if you're talking a couple hundret for the board and cpu, they're overkill... Until you got a sata raid controller or so available for pci express, you're better off if a more expensive board and then save the money on some cheaper storage..
Peter.