[geeks] Cheap Octocore
Francois Dion
francois.dion at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 13:32:51 CDT 2007
On 10/23/07, Mark <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 Oct 2007, at 01:05, Michael Dombrowski wrote:
>
> > "Dell Small Business offers the Dell PowerEdge SC1430
> > 8-Core Xeon 1.6GHz Server for $729. With $19 for
> > shipping, that matches our last mention as the lowest
> > price we've seen for this eight-core system by $270."
>
> Funny, I went through the configurator and couldn't get it any lower
> than $1427 with 8-core and 1GB RAM, 80GB hard drive and jack-all
> else. Another one of Dell's 'the price looks so good how could you
> not, even thought it's actually double that' offers?
Actually, select the base unit which comes with 1 xeon 5110, then
select the 5310 on cpu 1 and 5310 on cpu 2. You probably selected the
5330 cpus?
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