[geeks] The prices on PCs still amaze me...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
>Date: 2007/08/01 Wed PM 01:10:41 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] The prices on PCs still amaze me...

>On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> Just an interesting factoid...
>>
>> Dell has a special on their Dimension 9200 spec'd as follows for $649:
>
>Not bad.
>
>I just priced out an 8GB system with a quad 2.4GHz processor, an Intel
>entry-level server board, 3Ware RAID, four 750GB SATA disks, and all the
>I/O I'd want in a VMware server for under $3k.

For $3K a phenominal system can be built ;^) If you find a MB that can take a lot of DIMMs, you can save a lot of money (8 sticks of 1 Gig DIMMs is only $400, but if you need to buy 2 Gig DIMMs, the price for memory more than doubles)...

>These are good days if you need cheap computing power, and are
>platform-agnostic.

Exactly.

My quest was to build/buy a system with Intel VT virtualization technology, and none of my dual-core CPUs have it...

Lionel