Re: Re: OT: 5 new PC's required

[Scott Ewing <scott.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

5 of these?

http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_1447.html
small and quiet barebones system apparently - £120 inc vat

http://tinyurl.com/ys3zf
amd athlon 2500+ - £54.04 inc vat

http://tinyurl.com/yvgmt
Ebuyer 512meg PC2700 memory - £55.14 inc vat each - £110.28

http://tinyurl.com/2jfp6
Netgear Gig ethernet - 21.14 inc vat


305.46 inc vat per box, leaving 100 quid for operating system and
software (260 + vat since this is a buisness expense ;) )

not bad if you ask me

HTH
Scott

Graham Howe wrote:

>>>I need to get a little server farm set up ...
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>>Alternatively, one Very Fast (multiprocessor?) PC and
>>Microsoft Virtual PC running five instances of W2003?
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>I did think of virtual pc, but I know it is a memory hog and the server
>apps are already going to chomp memory. I'm pretty sure I can get away
>with 1Gb of memory in each server for now, but trying to set up 5 on
one
>box with that sort of requirement is going to mean an enormous amount
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>RAM on the machine. Also, I would assume that 5 average processors on
>basic boards would probably be significantly cheaper than a
>multi-processor board and cpus.
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>For anyone who is interested, it is a SAP Enterprise Portal I'm setting
>up for development work, this software is huge and there is no point in
>me trying to replicate a real commercial environment with puny kit. I
>have been using servers the past couple of weeks with 512Mb RAM and
they
>crawled :-( The setup needs to replicate corporate environments, so
>again several virtual servers wouldn't be exactly right.
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>So, back to the original question, I think I understand the pricing now
>and it looks like 1Gb RAM in each machine is going to be the limit for
>the cash. But I have yet to find a small case and motherboard that can
>run quietly and can take up to 2Gb RAM and 2GHz processor. I'm not to
>concerned about Intel or AMD and there will be no overclocking. Any
>suggestions?
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