Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 07:43:07 02/06/05
First, thanks to everyone for all your comments yesterday. Your comments drove me to re-research my Chess Computer buying options and I found a dual Opteron 244 for just $300 more than the dual Dell Dell 3.0 Xeon Specs: Products Ordered: Product Quantity Unit Price Total Thunder 1103 MSI K8T Master2-FAR,Dual Opteron,SATA,RAID OPTERON (244) Server Procssor 1.8GHz Retail Box OPTERON (244) Server Procssor 1.8GHz Retail Box Qty 2 x 512MB DDR 333, ECC, Registered Drives attached to embedded SATA controller , No Raid 120GB Caviar U150 SATA 7200rpm 8MB Please Make A Selection! 1.44Mb, 3.5, Floppy Drive, oem 52x CD-ROM Drive, IDE, Beige 52x32x52/16X DVD/CD-RW Drive, Beige Please Make A Selection! ATi Radeon 9200Se, 128MB, DDR, TV Out, Oem Broadcom 1000/100/10 on-board Lan Controller AC97 Wavetable Surround Sound USR 56k v.92 3091 PCI Voice Modem, oem Compucase MidTower, 400 Watt, Front USB, Extra Fan, ATX Internet Keyboard, PS/2 Please Make A Selection! Please Make A Selection! Please Make A Selection! Alvio Silver One year Warranty 1 $1489.94 $1489.94 Subtotal: $1489.94 Shipping & Handling: $29.37 Tax*: $0.00 Grand Total: $1519.31 Also you will notice tha these is no OS. Microsoft is offering their Beta Windows XP 64 Pro for a one year trail at $0/ This is the official and legitmate, legally authorized ny Microsoft link, http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/default.mspx Thanks again - that was great feedback from everybody. I now have to call Dell and cancel the order. oh Steve - this will be a 100% chess computer witha DGT board - it will pass inspection by your 15 man dedciated computer swat team. Don't forget to bring the beer , I got the Mickey Dees covered ;>) GO EAGLES!!!
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