[geeks] XIO V10 card size question

[vance at neurotica.com]

How much could you pick a machine like the below configuration:
1. New from SGI.
2. Refurbed or off-lease from SGI.

??

Peace...  Sridhar

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:
>
> > So, uhh, lets see.  $4500 for this, $3500 for the R14k, $500 for an
> > upgradable octane, $500 for a FC-AL card, and $1k for a PVO.  Thats, uh,
> > $9k.  Add another $2k for Maya, and $1k for 2 monitors, and we have a
> > $12k highend studio not quite in a box.  Of course, we could substitute
> > a $3500 DVO option, which would allow one to use firewire, but you would
> > have to get a bridge.  Well, things are falling, but still not cheap.
> >
>
> Don't forget that you need the Xbow 1.4 (backplane) to support V10 graphics,
> and the motherboard to take the R14k processor, as well as the proper power
> supply.  A regular R10k Octane won't have these, and chances are very good
> that an R12k Octane won't either.
>
> --
> Kurt
> kurt at k-huhn.com
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