My only two criticisms of your configuration would be: why EDO instead
of SDRAM and why Xeons? Xeons are still pretty pricey, run no faster
than 400 MHz,
Actually, you can get 450MHz Xeons. And the NX chipset which supports Quad
Xeons only takes EDO, not SDRAM. But it does interleaving.
One motivation behind Xeons is that the GX Xeon motherboards take up to 2G
memory and the NX Xeon motherboards take up to 4G (or more). Current BX
motherboards max out at 1G. And to put 1G on a BX motherboard requires 256M
pricey DIMMS because current commodity motherboards only have 4 DIMM slots.
Even the GX dual Xeons which can take 2G only have 4 DIMM slots so it
extremely pricey to put 2G on such a board because you need 512M DIMMs. OTOH,
the Dell PowerEdge 6300, like most NX motherboards, has 16 DIMM slots. So you
can use relatively inexpensive 128M DIMMS.
Jeff (http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/qobi)
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