From what I can tell this is pretty old technology (~5 years) - you will likely be better off getting a low end prebuilt box from Dell, unless you happen to have the Xeons and ECC RAM laying around.
This comes with a dual 600 watt power supply. Get a look at what those cost. Do what I will do, rip out the Intel mb and install what I want. In my case a Supermicro 8HDA with dual 885's. This can save $600 on a comparable new case with redundant power supply. A 500 watt redundant from a quality manufacturer is $468 Text
dude you can buy a dl380 G3 for less than this. full of drives. and cpu and ram. lol.
but why? this is such old tech its a waste.
who wants a 7 year old pc? i've got an old HP in the basement its too heavy to kick to the curb lol. pentium-4 1.3ghz (could be 1.4ghz) (yes thats socket 423) lol
Very simply because your Proliant doesn't have an ANSI certified 600 watt redundant power supply. It has a single 400 watt power supply. I can't put 2x Quadro 4600's in a 1U case which I happen to need CUDA and 3D geophysical displays. I can barely squeeze an EATX board into an existing Antec P120 (the new 180's won't take an EATX board) this give me much more room, a redundant power supply, and a bunch of other features most people would never understand unless you are a professional power user like a physicist, an engineer or an architect. You typically expect to pay $700+ for a case with the features this one has. Yes the motherboard is out of date, as I said remove it and use something more modern. But well designed cases never go obsolete. Obviously the 4 way 603 motherboard like this one still commands about $100 in todays replacement market. That is a lot cheaper than spending $5000 to completely replace the entire server when the board malfunctions. You are on Fatwallet and you didn't think of that.
"Increases in supercomputer performance have come in part from increases in the number of nodes in the cluster but, more important, from increases in microprocessor clock speed. As transistors were reduced in size and placed closer together, it was possible to turn them on and off faster and thus increase the clock speed. Today's transistors in high-end microprocessors have shrunk to 65 nanometers (billionths of a meter) and are running at gigahertz clock speeds (billions of clock ticks per second).
Transistors are still shrinking, and the number per microprocessor is still growing, but performance measured in arithmetic operations per second has flattened out since 2002." Unless you know more than the staff at Los Alamos National Laboratory Link I would be careful about how I criticized "old" technology in the right hands.
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