[vox-tech] motherboard of my dreams and hardware price hunting
based on specs (haven't read reviews yet), this is the motherboard of my dreams: Thunder K8W (S2885) dual opteron dual memory channels (4 PC2700 DDR EEC for each CPU) SATA AGP 8x/PRO 110W USB 1.2 (oh well. can't have everything) integrated stuff i'll never use the only thing i can't find is which opterons the board supports, so i'm assuming it'll take me all the way up to opteron 248. one problem: it's pricey. pricewatch has the cheapest board at $436 in CA (the first perk of living in NJ) with free fedex. at that price, i'll be running a pair of opteron 140's with 32MB on each CPU. :) i've always bought my stuff through pricewatch because other than a few years ago when memory prices shot sky high, hardware has been so cheap the past 5 years. it wasn't worth my time to bargain hunt for 10 or 20 bucks. have people found better prices than what pricewatch lists? are there any favorite price hunting sites that people have been using lately? thanks, pete -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] motherboard of my dreams and hardware price hunting
Pricewatch is by far my favorite choice, but i'll sometimes check www.nextag.com as they have a nice way of searching that includes shipping to a zip code included. Of course google wants in on the action with froogle.google.com... Mark --- Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: based on specs (haven't read reviews yet), this is the motherboard of my dreams: Thunder K8W (S2885) dual opteron dual memory channels (4 PC2700 DDR EEC for each CPU) SATA AGP 8x/PRO 110W USB 1.2 (oh well. can't have everything) integrated stuff i'll never use the only thing i can't find is which opterons the board supports, so i'm assuming it'll take me all the way up to opteron 248. one problem: it's pricey. pricewatch has the cheapest board at $436 in CA (the first perk of living in NJ) with free fedex. at that price, i'll be running a pair of opteron 140's with 32MB on each CPU. :) i've always bought my stuff through pricewatch because other than a few years ago when memory prices shot sky high, hardware has been so cheap the past 5 years. it wasn't worth my time to bargain hunt for 10 or 20 bucks. have people found better prices than what pricewatch lists? are there any favorite price hunting sites that people have been using lately? thanks, pete -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] motherboard of my dreams and hardware price hunting
one problem: it's pricey. pricewatch has the cheapest board at $436 in CA (the first perk of living in NJ) with free fedex. at that price, i'll be running a pair of opteron 140's with 32MB on each CPU. :) Er, 140's are for uni-processors. If you want 2 get 240's. Yes the 248s should work. -- Bill Broadley Information Architect Computational Science and Engineering UC Davis ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] motherboard of my dreams and hardware price hunting
On Thu 05 Feb 04, 10:17 PM, Bill Broadley [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: one problem: it's pricey. pricewatch has the cheapest board at $436 in CA (the first perk of living in NJ) with free fedex. at that price, i'll be running a pair of opteron 140's with 32MB on each CPU. :) Er, 140's are for uni-processors. yeah. that was supposed to have been a joke. the 32 MB was also supposed to be a joke. i wouldn't run the opterons with anything less than 64MB each. ;) pete If you want 2 get 240's. Yes the 248s should work. -- Bill Broadley Information Architect Computational Science and Engineering UC Davis ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] motherboard of my dreams and hardware price hunting
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 05 February 2004 09:56 am, Peter Jay Salzman p-at-dirac.org |lugod| wrote: have people found better prices than what pricewatch lists? are there any favorite price hunting sites that people have been using lately? I'm personaly fond of pricegrabber.com, it is great for when you know exactly what you want. They also list DVDs and whatnot. - -- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: 3B30 C6BE B1C6 9526 7A90 34E7 11DF 44F3 7217 7BC7 On pgp.mit.edu, import with `gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 72177BC7` Also available at http://www.cal.net/~ryan/ryan_at_mother_dot_com.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAIzZJEd9E83IXe8cRAiuwAJ0bhcqNCYW/iuKvKik5SqS0q2rNWACfeHR/ FE7uRfT1EPzt+pBQT+oHJU8= =wf52 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] motherboard of my dreams and hardware price hunting
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:32:52PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: On Thu 05 Feb 04, 10:17 PM, Bill Broadley [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: one problem: it's pricey. pricewatch has the cheapest board at $436 in CA (the first perk of living in NJ) with free fedex. at that price, i'll be running a pair of opteron 140's with 32MB on each CPU. :) Er, 140's are for uni-processors. yeah. that was supposed to have been a joke. the 32 MB was also supposed to be a joke. i wouldn't run the opterons with anything less than 64MB each. ;) Heh, well, this is one of those times, how often are you really going to run 2 cpu intensive processes at once? Keep in mind you could get a killer single: 2.0 GHz Athlon 64 $220 Random athlon 64 $220 2.0 GB ram PC3200 $250 dual 160 GB sata $200 nice quiet antec $80 (with 4 shock mounted bays, and temp adaptive fans) If you have to much money left over get a $750 dell 20 LCD. BTW while the athlon 64 has 1/2 the memory bandwidth, PC3200 is faster then PC2700, and the athlon 64 memory bus is lower latency. Check the benchmark sites for a direct comparison. -- Bill Broadley Information Architect Computational Science and Engineering UC Davis ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
