[OpenIndiana-discuss] Need coaching about used equipment
I've been running oi on what is now an older AMD Athlon64 +3400 with three GB ram which is the max on that Abit board. My setup is only a small scale home server intended to supply my need of lots of room for video editing files and other hefty graphic projects. Something has happened to render the hardware unusable and rather than spend time investigating, I think I'd as soon upgrade. Even if the fix were simple. I'm not looking for bleeding edge but something a few yrs old (2-3). I'd like to have the option of at least 8GB ram so it would need a mobo that supports that much. Also the board should have a nice lot of sata controllers and ports. 64 bit architecture also a requirement. Don't care about sound or video being more than adequate. It could be a mobo cpu bundle or a full computer. Cutting to the chase then... I hoped some of you may know what is something midway or so from my old Athlon and up to date hardware. I'd like to have some names and specs to search for an ebay or whereever since there is such a plethora of stuff available a person could flounder around in it endlessly without some specific targets. I'm afraid it would take a lot of research on my part to come up with the names as I have not kept up with trends for some years. I'm thinking some of the folks here will know off the top of there heads, hardware that would match the spec laid out above, so I'm hoping to tap into that knowledge rather than immerse myself in research lazy I guess, but if it does not require much on the part of any responders I'd like to hear from you. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need coaching about used equipment
You could look for something like a Core2Quad 6600 plus a socket 775 motherboard. I would think that generation of architecture would suit you pretty well and be reasonably cost effective. Try for something with an Intel chipset to maintain the best compatibility with OI. Going outside the Intel line may work, but it also could cause you grief. -Original Message- From: Harry Putnam [mailto:rea...@newsguy.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:59 PM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need coaching about used equipment I've been running oi on what is now an older AMD Athlon64 +3400 with three GB ram which is the max on that Abit board. My setup is only a small scale home server intended to supply my need of lots of room for video editing files and other hefty graphic projects. Something has happened to render the hardware unusable and rather than spend time investigating, I think I'd as soon upgrade. Even if the fix were simple. I'm not looking for bleeding edge but something a few yrs old (2-3). I'd like to have the option of at least 8GB ram so it would need a mobo that supports that much. Also the board should have a nice lot of sata controllers and ports. 64 bit architecture also a requirement. Don't care about sound or video being more than adequate. It could be a mobo cpu bundle or a full computer. Cutting to the chase then... I hoped some of you may know what is something midway or so from my old Athlon and up to date hardware. I'd like to have some names and specs to search for an ebay or whereever since there is such a plethora of stuff available a person could flounder around in it endlessly without some specific targets. I'm afraid it would take a lot of research on my part to come up with the names as I have not kept up with trends for some years. I'm thinking some of the folks here will know off the top of there heads, hardware that would match the spec laid out above, so I'm hoping to tap into that knowledge rather than immerse myself in research lazy I guess, but if it does not require much on the part of any responders I'd like to hear from you. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need coaching about used equipment
To be honest, I tend to go for new equipment rather than second hand. You can get slightly less than leading edge for good money, which means you get a warantee as well. I use a company called "scan" scan.co.uk ... and I look up the boards and then use the "related products" section to see what matches in terms of processor and memory, in relation to price. I'm in the UK, so I call them up and I can have a conversation like, "I've got £300 to spend on a mobo/processor and ram. It'll be for a desktop and I need about 4gig of RAM. What can you do me?" and they'll talk me through a couple of options. In five to ten minutes, the deal is done. I recently picked up a motherboard, i3 processor and 4gig of ram for £200. But I had a £20 nvidea card to put in it, because I get better results than Intel graphics with Linux/Unix. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
