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What do you think of this setup? Upgrading server.

Sickpuppy

Member
I am about to buy the parts, want a few opinions first. I am running a RAID5 array on this, and after the upgrade there will be 10hdd's in the server. The power supply is highly rated, and has a 5 year warrantee. I decided not to be cheap and very unhappy =P


$189 Corsair XMS (Twin Pack) 184 Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200 - Retail
$201 SUPERMICRO "Super P4SCi" E7210 Chipset Server Motherboard -RETAIL
$183 Intel Pentium 4/ 3.0E GHz 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2 Cache Retail

$191 PC Power & Cooling 510W ATX-Deluxe

+30$ shipping or so.
 
Newegg does not have the motherboard in stock!!!!
ewiz.com has a 9.3 rating, i NEVER thought i would go outside of newegg. but apparently I will have to. Same price as newegg approximately. Except they have all the parts I need.

Updated the part list with ECC ram. Thanks to a caring forumgoer from

$201.88 Supermicro P4SCi P4 E7210 FSB800 Motherboard MB-P4SCI
$184.11 Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz 800MHz 478PIN 1MB Retail
$166.86 *Kingston 512MB PC3200 184-pin DDR SDRAM Memory
$30.90 Rocket Head IDE to Serial ATA (SATA Converter) HI-HEAD_SE
$21.12 Creative SBS330 2.1 Black Speaker System (White Box)
$19.90 Shipping
$624.77


$191 PC Power & Cooling 510W ATX-Deluxe not many vendors carry this part.. so its separate shipping etc.

So approximately $825 Shipped.

edit:... except now THEY are out of stock too. WTF! I'll have to find another one I will have to order everything next monday/tues so i get it for testing on the weekend.
 
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