Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:04:53 08/25/05
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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. Almost guaranteed to be false. The 500's that we had used the "slot" type processors. Newer processors are back to normal socket-xxx layouts. Also, most MBs back then were very restrictive as to what they could do. We have some Dells that will run 400-550, but no faster... > >At $199 seems like a decent chess box for doing/testing SMP code. Not a bad price. Probably cost more than that to get it shipped. The older quad boxes usually had redundant power, for example. And could easily reach 100 pounds... My quad xeon 700 box weighed in just over 120 pounds. in fact.. > >Any comments? Suggestions? > >Joshua Shriver
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