Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 22:14:58 02/17/03
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On February 18, 2003 at 00:49:10, K. Burcham wrote: > > >your prices will vary. >both systems have medium price video cards. >both systems have one single ide 7200 rpm hard drive. >both have 4 x 512 megs ram. >both are tower only. >i suspect big difference in motherboard cost because i think the intel > system had onboard scsi controller. >both have extended warranty. > >2 x amd mp 2400+ 2000 mhz, 4000mhz $3486 > >2 x intel xeon 3060 mhz, 6120mhz $4952 > >kburcham No way. I've invested about $1,800 in my system. Here are my specs and rough estimation of prices that I paid: Antec 1240SX full tower - $150 Tyan TigerMPX - $200 (2) AthlonMP 1600 - $340 ($170/ea.) Samsung 1 GB ECC/Reg pc2100 - $330 3ware Escalade 6410 - $100 (2) Seagate Barracuda IV 60GB 7200 rpm - $200 ($100/ea.) GeForce 4 MX440 - $75 Soundblaster Audigy X-Gamer - $100 Sony 16X DVD-ROM - $50 Philips 24/12/48 CD-RW - $50 Linksys EG1064 Gbit NIC - $80 Add $330 for another 1 GB of ram, add $160 to get AthlonMP 2400. Add another $300 and you get on-board SCSI and other bells & whistles. The brings the total to $2,300 with IDE RAID, SCSI option, 2 GB of ram + 2 empty slots for future expansion, Gbit NIC, etc. $2,300. Not $3,500. The Xeon system is probably equally overpriced. Bob could offer a good comparison with his dual 2.8 GHz Xeon. -Matt
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