Supermicro Quad Xeon MB

Heavy_Equipment · 09-19-2002, 11:53 PM

I was following a link when I found the Supermicro site. I honestly had never heard of them before. I got looking around and saw the quad board. Seeing how the dual board is $900 CDN at a local store, I'd have to guess the quad at $1200.
Anywho, here's the link to the board, and get a load of the 16 slot-32GB memory riser .

Let's see $1079 CDN a piece for 2.4a Xeons, $4316.
And I'll guess-timate $225 a stick for 512 ECC PC2100 x 16, $3600. And that's only for 1/4 of the total DDR this beast can run.

$7900 CDN, just for CPU's and 'some' memory, and the board is probably $1200 more.
$9100, plus 15% taxes here...$10.5K.

Let's see, down payment on a house, or a killer cluster. hmmmm.

jtroutma · 09-20-2002, 04:03 PM

I have one of their striped down dual PIII boards running in my server. So far, I am very happy with it and the only issue I have seen is that the board doesn't like to run the memory at CAS2. Probably due to the Registered ECC memory.

Good boards though

Heavy_Equipment · 09-20-2002, 04:34 PM

Add another $80K to that to deck it out.
2GB ECC from Kingston Technology, at $3630 USD per stick.
x 16 sticks is $58080 USD.

Thats only about $90K CDN to fill this thing.

Forget the down-payment, this thing just became the cost of a house.

Brad · 09-21-2002, 02:18 AM

I'd say your $1200 price for the quad board is slightly optimistic. More like 2 - 3 times that price

09-19-2002, 11:53 PM	#1
Heavy_Equipment Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Newmarket, Ontario, Canada Posts: 282	Supermicro Quad Xeon MB I was following a link when I found the Supermicro site. I honestly had never heard of them before. I got looking around and saw the quad board. Seeing how the dual board is $900 CDN at a local store, I'd have to guess the quad at $1200. Anywho, here's the link to the board, and get a load of the 16 slot-32GB memory riser . Let's see $1079 CDN a piece for 2.4a Xeons, $4316. And I'll guess-timate $225 a stick for 512 ECC PC2100 x 16, $3600. And that's only for 1/4 of the total DDR this beast can run. $7900 CDN, just for CPU's and 'some' memory, and the board is probably $1200 more. $9100, plus 15% taxes here...$10.5K. Let's see, down payment on a house, or a killer cluster. hmmmm.

09-20-2002, 04:03 PM	#2
jtroutma Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: SLO, CA Posts: 837	I have one of their striped down dual PIII boards running in my server. So far, I am very happy with it and the only issue I have seen is that the board doesn't like to run the memory at CAS2. Probably due to the Registered ECC memory. Good boards though __________________ Athlon64 X2 4200+ @ 2.5Ghz (250FSB x 10) OCZ VX 1GB 4000 @ 250FSB (6-2-2-2 timmings) DFI LANParty nForce4 Ultra-D SCSI Raid 5 x (3) Cheetah 15K HDDs LSI Express 500 (128MB cache) OCZ PowerStream 520W PSU ATI X850XT PE (Stock) DTEK WhiteWater + DTEK Custom Radiator Eheim 1250

09-21-2002, 02:18 AM	#4
Brad Thermophile Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Nuu Zeeelin Posts: 3,175	I'd say your $1200 price for the quad board is slightly optimistic. More like 2 - 3 times that price __________________ 2x P3 1100's at 1400, Abit VP6, 2x Corsair 256mb PC150 sticks, 20gb 'cuda ATA-III, 2x 40gb 'cuda ATA-IV in raid 0. 20" Trinitron. No fans 2x 2400+ at 2288mhz (16.0 x 143), Iwill MPX2, 2x Kingmax PC-3200 256mb sticks, 4x 20gb 60gxp in Raid 5 on a Promise SX6000. Asus Ti4200 320/630. Cooled by Water

09-20-2002, 04:34 PM	#3
Heavy_Equipment Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Newmarket, Ontario, Canada Posts: 282	Add another $80K to that to deck it out. 2GB ECC from Kingston Technology, at $3630 USD per stick. x 16 sticks is $58080 USD. Thats only about $90K CDN to fill this thing. Forget the down-payment, this thing just became the cost of a house.

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