[mythtv-users] Good deal for someone on a video card, or a B/E ???
Tom Lichti
tom at redpepperracing.com
Mon Apr 30 19:08:34 UTC 2007
Brian Long wrote:
> On 4/29/07, *Brian Wood* <beww at beww.org <mailto:beww at beww.org>> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> If you want to talk about good deals, I just spotted an IBM Z Pro Xeon
> machine with a Quadro 4 video card, 4 64-bit PCI slots, 1 32-bit PCI
> slot, an integrated Ultra 320 SCSI controller and a lot more for
> $289.99. I don't know where you could buy the quadro, or the scsi
> controller, or the Mobo alone for that price, not to mention the HDD,
> Xeon CPU, case, PSU, ECC registered RAM and everything else that goes
> with it. With a H/W RAID card, or even without, it would make a
> killer B/E.
>
> http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ZPRO2660-2B&cat=SYS
> <http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ZPRO2660-2B&cat=SYS>
>
>
> Backend for sure. Have you ever heard an IBM Intellistation Z Pro
> while it's powered on? The fans during POST run full blast and sound
> like blowers. Once the machine passes POST and temperature detection
> kicks in, the box is still very loud. Many people have complained
> these machines are too loud while sitting under their desk at work.
> Of course, when you run the CPUs at 100%, the fans run full blast and
> bother your cube neighbors. ;-)
>
> /Brian/
I have one of those as a web server, I paid $250 CDN for it, with the
Quadro card (which scores almost 11,000fps on glxgears, btw... :) )
Tom
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