On 4/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<snip><br>If you want to talk about good deals, I just spotted an IBM Z Pro Xeon<br>machine with a Quadro 4 video card, 4 64-bit PCI slots, 1 32-bit PCI<br>slot, an integrated Ultra 320 SCSI controller and a lot more for
<br>$289.99. I don't know where you could buy the quadro, or the scsi<br>controller, or the Mobo alone for that price, not to mention the HDD,<br>Xeon CPU, case, PSU, ECC registered RAM and everything else that goes<br>
with it. With a H/W RAID card, or even without, it would make a killer B/E.<br><br><a href="http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ZPRO2660-2B&cat=SYS">http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ZPRO2660-2B&cat=SYS</a>
</blockquote><div><br>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. ;-)
<br><br>/Brian/<br></div></div>