Richard A. Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:05:19 -0600, Bari Ari wrote:
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>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>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.
>
NSC MacPhyter (10/100) is under $5 and the NSC Gbit Ethernet chipset has
dropped low enough to have cards around for under $100. 10/100 BOM is
under $10 + assembly. Prices have dropped.
Bari Ari
