On Dec 13, 2004, at 1:51 PM, Anand Keathley wrote:
That said, if the opportunity presents itself that one of the other two styles of G5 Xserve are available to me for cheap, there are still a couple things that would be good to know. Bruce, I'm confused about ethernet on this. I asked, "The Apple document says there are two ethernet sockets on the motherboard. Can those be used directly or does one need to use the optional PCI-X card?" To which you answered, "Yes." As there were two questions I am unsure which one you were saying yes to. Would you please clarify?
Sorry, "yes, use the internals."
You *will* run into hassles using a G5 Xserve as a 'desktop' system; it's just not designed to be used in such and environment.
As a forinstance, you mentioned putting in a sound card...well, I hope you have BIG speakers, because servers are LOUD. They're designed to sit in machine rooms where people don't have to work.
1U servers are worse, since they *really* depend on cranking through the air to keep those skinny things cool.
We had to shut down our server rack a while back to accommodate a long power outage. It was like we'd gone suddenly deaf it was so quiet in the office.
Also, I'd find extraordinarily odd to 'find' a XServe G5 system for that much of a discount. It will most likely either be stolen or a scam.
These are *brand new* systems, no one's had one long enough to discount that much.
But $1000 is only $300 shy of a brand new G5 iMac. ($200 if you can wangle an academic discount). You were already spending that on sound and video cards, and more than that on HDD's.
That's out of the box ready for you to use as a desktop system...
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