Author: Majd Al-Ansari
Date: 12:00:30 08/25/05
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Hell the RAM alone is worth the $199. I would estimate the Quad system would (on a multiprocessor friendly engine) to be equivalent to a PIV 2.4 Ghz. On August 25, 2005 at 14:39:47, Joshua Shriver wrote: >I came across this machine on ebay. >Which is a Quad Xeon 500mhz machine with 2gigs of RAM. > >http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-PowerEdge-6300-Quad-Intel-Xeon-550MHz-2-GB-RAM_W0QQitemZ5801651548QQcategoryZ51229QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem > >While 500mhz is rather slow by todays standards, I'm more interested in the fact >that it's a quad system. I've also been told this could be later upgraded to >perhaps 1-1.2ghz CPU's if I needed more speed. > >At $199 seems like a decent chess box for doing/testing SMP code. > >Any comments? Suggestions? > >Joshua Shriver
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