[mythtv-users] Good deal for someone on a video card, or a B/E ???

[Tom Lichti]

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