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sgi 320..

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scottatwittenberg

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there is a place that is selling a few sgi 320s for $200 each..
http://www.dccworkstation.com/htm/Reviews/SGI320_Review.htm
they are single 500 mhz with 256 mb of ram and a 10 gig scsi...

i am thinking that i could get one, drop in another 500 pIII, another 10 gig scsi (which i already have, or maybe just a 120 gig), and upgrade the ram to 512 or even 768..

i like it because a. the case looks cool... it is different... and it has audio and video inputs and outputs... this means i could make a nice media pc that will hook up to a stereo and tv with standard rca connections...

so anyways, do people here think it is worth buying it for $200 and then dropping another $100 - $150 on it (might put in a burner) or could $350 be spent in a more productive way?
 
so who is selling them for $200?

hell i would like just the case :)
 
a place in college park MD, maybe beltsville... you want me to pick one up for you??

i don't like on thing though.....

Similar to other SGI workstations, the 320 uses proprietary, ECC RAM. Two banks (A and B), each comprising of 6 DIMM slots can be populated with 128, 256 or 512MB sets to bring the maximum RAM up to 1GB.

proprietary memory???
http://www.btinternet.com/~sgi320/RAM.htm
http://www.btinternet.com/~sgi320/CPU.htm
 
$200 is a pretty good deal. I have a SGI 320 and got dual PIII 1.0ghz to work on them. I don't like the propreitary memory as well. The memory is specifically built to work on the SGI 320/540 only (their physical size is half that of a DDR ram). Thanks to SGI, these memory will cost a pretty penny. However, the SGI 320 is outdated no matter how you look at it (well, except the case :) and you know how much $350 can buy these days. But if you are thinking anything like me at that time I bought my SGI 320, forget everything else and just get one of these sweet SGI computer.
 
I'm looking to get an SGI 540 myself. I have 4 500 Xeons w/ 2mb cache each (I used to have an Intel SRKA4 rack server that went tits up) that I need to put into something, and the 540 looks way cool.

Not only is the RAM proprietary, but so is most everything else. I know that the 540 can't run anything past Windows 2000 (no XP) so you have to choose either NT4 or 2K.

Certain features inside won't work in 2K even, like the RAD audio board, if you get one with that. You can't upgrade the video since the Cobalt graphics are "faster than AGP" heh, and thus it has no AGP port.

That being said $200 is a great deal. I don't know how much money I would put into it, other than a second CPU. I can tell you from experience that P3-500's, even 2 or 4 of them, are not that fast that you'll want to use the machine other than as a novelty.

-MrD
 
well.. i think i have been talked out of it.. maybe i will try to go in a haggle for both of them for $350 or something... then i can combine them and have one computer with dual 500's and 512 mb of ram.. but even that doesn't sound like much of a computer.. if i did that though.. i could recover costs by selling the case, scsi card, and motherboard...
 
i worked with a few of those a few years back.. total pain in the ass. Everything was proprietary.. down to the keyboard and mouse. IIRC you needed a special version of NT/2000 just to use the thing.

the case might look "cool", but it was very impractical in everyday use. That door thingie takes forever to open and close, the rounded shape meant you could not put anyting on top of it (you'd be surprised how often you end up putting a CD or book on top of your PC), and also meant it was an ungainly thing to move around.

don't even think of upgrading the graphics card. While the on-board SGI Cobalt graphics was great back in the day, it's probably pretty ancient now. Besides, i think it was designed as a video editing machine more than anything else.
 
well... i found out that the place has a website.. and you can get them if you want.. but i have decided against it.. they are at pcretro.com
 
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