I needed to buy two Opteron capable servers with PCI slots. I finally
found one that had both PCI-X and PCI. It was an Asus.
So when we got it in, I noticed that it only came with a PCI-X riser. I
went back and forth with Asus "support" who finally gave up and said
that they had no part # for a PCI riser card. We had to communicate
through email because I could not, for the life of me, understand him
through his Asian accent.
After much trial and error I finally found some guy on the internet who
had risers that worked with those servers.
That's my pretty crappy whitebox support story. And the whitebox itself
(no processors, drives, or RAM) was $1000+.
joeuser wrote:
I'd have to say white boxes are quality PC's for the most part.
I'm not blindly anti-dell, my eyes are wide open. Not all home brew PC's
are quality, I would say for the most part they are. You won't get me to
swear on anything or deal in absolutes except to say Dell sucks.
