Sparky's coming together

2007-04-02 Thread Joshua Penix
Good news! I just got word that the 1U chassis with hotswap drives for our new Sparky has come into stock and should be shipping to me today. Sparky's replacement is getting close... Since CPU and memory prices tend to drop over time, I held off ordering either of those components until

Re: Sparky's coming together

2007-04-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Joshua Penix wrote: The original order specs were for a pair of 2.0GHz dual core Xeon 5130's, and the cost for those is about $350/ea. Now we have the option of choosing the 2.0GHz quad core Xeon E5335 for about $730. This would leave one socket free for further expansion, and would

Re: Sparky's coming together

2007-04-02 Thread James G. Sack (jim)
John H. Robinson, IV wrote: Joshua Penix wrote: The original order specs were for a pair of 2.0GHz dual core Xeon 5130's, and the cost for those is about $350/ea. Now we have the option of choosing the 2.0GHz quad core Xeon E5335 for about $730. This would leave one socket free for