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Octa Core FTW!

marty9876

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<< Be less as always if called in. 1066 FSB, might want to wait till 1333 FSB quads ship.

Get RAM on open market, load up X_64 nix and have fun! >>

PowerEdge SC 1430 Qty 1
Quad Core Intel® Xeon® E5310; 2X4MB Cache, 1.6GHz, 1066MHZ FSB, No Operating System Unit Price $2,547.00
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Catalog Number: 4 SC1430-MIN
Module Description Show Details
PowerEdge SC1430 Quad Core Intel® Xeon® E5310; 2X4MB Cache, 1.6GHz, 1066MHZ FSB
Operating System No Operating System
2nd Processor Quad Core Intel® Xeon® E5310, 2x4MB Cache, 1.60GHz, 1066MHz FSB
Memory 1GB 533Mhz(2x512), Single Ranked Fully Buffered DIMMs
Keyboard No Keyboard Option
Monitor No Monitor Option
Primary Hard Drive 80GB, SATA II, 3.5-inch, 7.2K RPM Hard Drive
Hard Drive Controller Onboard SATA Controller - No RAID
Floppy Drive No Floppy Drive
Mouse No Mouse Option
Network Adapter On-Board Single Gigabit Network Adapter
CD/DVD Drive No CD/DVD Drive
System Documentation Electronic Documentation and OpenManage CD Kit
Hard Drive Configuration Onboard SATA Controller supports 1-2 Hard Drives - No RAID
Hardware Support Services 1Yr BASIC SUPPORT: 5x10 HW-Only, 5x10 NBD Onsite
Installation Support Services No Installation Assessment

TOTAL:$2,047.00
 
Think you can get the RAM and the server all for under 2k? That's just 200 bucks per core. Way cheaper than building.
 
Interesting point, we should see if someone here buys a crap load from Dell and could get the highest discount. Most often it's people under a business and can't exactly resell that way.

99.9% of the time when you call Dell on the phone it cheaper, by a long shot. They always throw in free stuff and knock ~ 10% or more off the price.

I'd shoot for $1800 price w/ 2 gig RAM as a bargaining starting point.

I did not price out the other Dell (Workstations etc.), finding a box with at least 1x PCI-E slot would be a wise idea.
 
edit:

5 total I/O slots
2 PCI Express slots (x4 with x8 connectors)
2 64-bit/100MHz PCI-X slots 3.3V, 1 32-bit/33MHz PCI slot 5V
One full height, full length slot; Remaining slots are full height, half length
 
That's pretty cheap, only thing I see lacking is you're going to want 4 sticks of ram to run in quad channel. Great price though.
 
The only drawbacks are the lack of overclocking options and PCIe graphics slots (x16), imho.
 
Thanks Marty

That really is not too bad of a price. Dang@!

Just need a real PCI-E slot for a GPU.
 
Pocatello said:
Thanks Marty

That really is not too bad of a price. Dang@!

Just need a real PCI-E slot for a GPU.

8 cores just isn't enough?
 
Box has a PCI-E slot I think 8x. Frame time loss from 16x to 8x was ~ 5% or less (way less I think) Mike Houston did a break down on this, I posted this someplace here.
 
marty9876 said:
Box has a PCI-E slot I think 8x. Frame time loss from 16x to 8x was ~ 5% or less (way less I think) Mike Houston did a break down on this, I posted this someplace here.

I know on the older SCs you had to dremel out a break in the 8x slot so that a vid card would fit, not sure if these ones are the same way.
 
750 watt PSU too

Not that it's not a piece of shit Dell with all that crap to deal with.... but it's 8 frigging real cores!
 
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