budget AMD64 for a server

[Bill Broadley]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:15:36PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> 
> One of my old (1.2 GHz) Athlon XP machines in the rack died,
> so I'm looking for a minimal-price AMD64 based server 
> substitute.

Tier-1?  Or not? 

If Tier-1, I'm reasonably happy with my $745 Sun x2100.  It has a pci-e
slot, I had to add a SATA disk ($50), to make it usable.  It does have
2 GigE and a 3 year warranty.

Pretty nice airflow, fairly short chassis (for a 1U), has redundant
trivial to replace CPU fans (i.e. 5 seconds).

I'm seen similar from many other vendors, but usually with pci-x instead
of pci-e.

-- 
Bill Broadley
Computational Science and Engineering
UC Davis