How's this workstation look?

[vi edit]

Had a budget of 1800 to build a workstation, how's this one look?

Workstation

Also sitting here, I have another one of the IBM 15 gigers so I have the ability to go w/ either striping or mirroring. I'm probably going to go w/ striping because the TBU will being doing the data backups. I've also got the floppy and 3com NIC so that's not an issue either.

I know I could probably do a hundred or two cheaper if I shopped around, but by the time you figure in shipping and handling on all of those seperate places, I'm not going to really be saving a whole lot.

It'll be running either NT 4.0 w/ SP 4 or Win2k, haven't decided which. It'll be doing a boatload of crystal reporting, backups on a couple workstations, and also some database work as well.

LMK what ya think.

 

[BaDaBooM]

Looks pretty decent to me The mb/cpu/ram seems like it might be like $50 high and also the case too. I've never paid more than $100 for my full towers... of course that could be because it is a supermicro or shipping.

 

[vi edit]

Actually, I think it was the RAM that killed the price on that combo. It was a little higher than normal. Oh, and the SuperMicro is a pretty expensive case, but it's also one of the highest rated in it's price/field.

 

[Warrenton]

I personally would take the InWin Q500 over the Supermicro.

Also I'd ditch that RAM. Get Mushkin or Crucial. For a workstation you want top quality stuff, CAS2

 

[Ausm]

Supermicro is the way to go if you want a high quality light duty server case..

Ausm