Saturday, October 18, 2003

ECC-Capable Motherboards

Pricing motherboards and components again. Goal is a low-cost server with 100Gb of disk space and ECC memory, preferably using AMD processors. 120Gb SATA-150 drives are $110ea, misc bits are around $250 (case, floppy, DVD, fans).

Asus SK8N Motherboard (AMD)
- Uses an Opteron processor (see MonarchComputer for a list of CPUs/RAM).
- Uses the Promise raid controllers (my preferred vendor)
- $220 motherboard, 2x$135 memory (512x2), $270 1.4Ghz Opteron
- $760 for the CPU/MB/RAM

Abit IC7-G Max II Advance (Pentium4)
- Socket 478, 800/533Mhz FSB only, 2.8Ghz chips are $270
- memory prices should be 2x$135 for ECC DDR
- motherboard price is $210 (total of $750)

posted by Wuphon's at 12:26 PM