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Subject: Re: comparing price 2x amd mp to 2x intel xeon

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 22:47:07 02/17/03

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On February 18, 2003 at 01:14:58, Matt Taylor wrote:

>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

not everyone is willing to build their own pc matt :)

btw its nice to see someone else going for the stealth pc with seagate HDs and
the antec case.

anthony



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