I'm not ditching anything. The old board, CPU's, RAM are now sitting happily
on a multi-T3 connection serving up web pages. I have a monitor (no need for
one on the web server..) The only thing I'm going to need to buy is 128 meg
of RAM (around $160) and a CDROM and case (around $100).. I don't know where
you are paying $150 for an ATX case but as far as I care, cases, CDROM's, etc
are just pieces which can be used for 2-3 more generations of computers. In
fact I just got rid of a case which housed about 5 different computers from a
486/33 to that dual P166..
--Adam
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Date: Monday, October 05, 1998 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: going from dual P166 to dual PPro
I rather think that Robert's point is; for each box there is some cost
that you have to pay -- RAM, case, PSU, display cards, etc. I have a
plethora of dual PPro boxen, and love them -- been using them for more
than two years now, and plan to continue using them to the fullest, as
an experiment in PVM-- but the price differential between dual PPro180
(at $90 per) and dual PII300 (at $200 per) is not $255 ($75 for MB) vs
$529 ($129 for MB-- Computer Geeks is selling the Tyan Thunder II real
cheap, with sound, PCI LAN and AHA7880 SCSI on-board), but, assuming a
cheap 4 gig SCSI drive from Onsale, say, at $150, a panasonic CD-R for
$240, fair ATX tower case for $150, display card for $180 (and Matrox
Mill 2, the best choice for PPro based Linux boxen, is going out!) RAM
at 128MB for $180-- 4x$40 32MB Parity EDO SIMMs from Net Express for a
PPro machine, one ECC PC100 128MB SDRAM stick for the PII. Now we are
talking some $1200 vs $1500 for 1.5+ times the performance, with cost
of a monitor still not factored in. So unless old case, SIMMs, NIC et
al are all salvageable and you are ditching your old board, I think it
is clear that Robert's right-- it's no longer economic for dual PPros.
Comments? PS, what does people think of buying the $540 PII-333-OD to
upgrade dual PPro boxen?
B.Y.
