On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:05:19 -0600, Bari Ari wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>A P4 with the 845D chipset with DDR SDRAM and 8 Fast Ethernet >controllers sharing the PCI bus is workable. The BOM would be well under >$200 plus the cost of DDR and CPU. Um... well under $200? Not unless you are building a whole _bunch_ of them. Even then I'm doubtfull. We have built small runs (<= 25) of prototype PIII boards and to meet our markup % they worked out somewhere in the $300 range. + a fairly large NRE. Granted these were more complex than what a cluster node would be but 8 ethernet ports alone is going to be fair ammount of $$. Expecially if they were gigabit. You can't just go by raw parts cost alone. There are a whole bunch of other issues that keep the base cost to build a CPU board up there in quantities < 1000. -- Richard A. Smith Bitworks, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 501.846.5777 Sr. Design Engineer http://www.bitworks.com
