Am Sa, 8.07.2006, 03:41, schrieb Chris Buechler: > Scott Ullrich wrote: >> We have a proliant 8500R. > > which is currently a quad PIII Xeon 550, 2 MB L2. > > It uses PC100 registered ECC SDRAM, and has 16 slots, 8 of which are > empty I believe. > > The other server is a dual PIII 1 GHz, it uses PC133 registered ECC > SDRAM. It has 4 slots, all of which are full (4x256), so we need at > least 512 MB chips for it. > > >> We are needing ram for this machine big >> time. > > and for the other even worse, though that'll be a bit alleviated after > we upgrade the disks. right now the box with 1 GB RAM hosts more than > the box with 2 GB RAM because it has 4* the drive space. > > >> We can also use additional processors, as we have 4 open slots. > > though that might be quite difficult, unless somebody has a bunch of > procs and we can just replace them all. I'm not sure how picky these > old Xeons are about steppings matching.
They are. At least, CPQ makes you believe that. I don't know about the servers, but on workstations of this class, you also needed the special vendor-provided VRMs (which were basically worth their weight in gold). Maybe not on the servers, but I wouldn't bet on being able to stick a plain-vanilla P3-Xeon in any server. You should create an ebay saved-search and buy a 2nd machine and cannibalize it, when it shows up. Similar for the drives. I wonder if it would not be better to hold a "please fund us" pledge and buy one of those Tyan GT20 nforece4 barebones + an Areca-controller + 4 drives. I'm not sure if I could persuade my company to cough-up some money, but you never know ;-) But I have to admit that if you have the rackspace to spare, these old P3 Xeon-beasts are really solid machines and seemingly "built for eternity". cheers, Rainer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
