Bought this for a server.. Feedback wanted

akshatp

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Case w/ 7 bays, 400W PS $64
Abit Th7II 850 with Raid Socket 478 Pentium ATX Mainboard $210
Intel Pentium 4 1.8 gHz 478 pin 400fsb CPU $269
Sony 52x CDROM $49
Microsoft Optical Mouse/Internet Keyboard $32/$24
3com 3c905B 10/100 NIC $47
Major Brand 1GB RDRAM, PC800, 512x2, $388
(2) 40GB IBM IDE 7200rpm ATA/100 2MB Cache Hard Drive $248 (Bought two for raid mirroring)
Asus V7700 Pure GeForce2 GTS 32MB DDR 4XAGP Video $137
Case fan $9.00

Total with shipping $1503.

What do you guys think of this setup for an application server in a network of 20 users. Workstations are AMD 1.4, 512mb, ECS K7S5A.

Furthermore, do you think the prices are reasonable, or did I get ripped off?

Thanks for looking...
 

bignick

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well for starters why do you need a $137 video card in a server? all my servers have cheap ATI or S3 2meg PCI cards. All you need is 800x600 at 16 bit color. Personally for a server I would invest in SCSI, but since you're going the IDE route, get a better IDE raid controller than what's built into the motherboard. Also where's your backup device? You could always invest in another hard drive and have the contents of the raid array written to the other harddrive each night.

Other than that, looks good.