Author: K. Burcham
Date: 19:14:11 05/31/01
this baby should hit about 2225 kns. (aint that a waste of transistors---dang bottlenecks) cant find a site that has tested this processor (i saw intels tests) wonder if the xeon is as slow as the pentium 4. i noticed that dell has a system available with dual 1700 xeons. i put one together online, just the tower, ran about $4800 with 1 gig ram (800mhz), and one ide hard drive. so i started looking to see if the individual components are available, to assemble at home. well you know how that is---they are at the sites, but if you can actually get them---not sure. the 1700 mhz xeon processors (dual capable), are listed for $550 each. the supermicro P4DC6 motherboard is about $800. 4 x 256 ram is about $1000. so total to stick in your atx case is about $3000. but intel says minimum 400 watt power supply. another $150, if you dont have. also if you are not moving the air in, and getting it out, then an atx turbo case with a couple of blowholes will add another $250. oh yea, and if you dont have a windows 2000 pro cd laying around, that is another $200. oh well we only go around once. you cant leave it all to your kids---they will just fight over it anyway.
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