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computermaineack

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so, i got bored and i decided to configure a dell n-series (no windows) computer. the final configuraton price was $59,369, with the following specs:

2 Dual Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5080 3.73GHz, 2 X 2MB L2,1066

OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS v4 for EM64T 64bit system w/ 1 YR RHN, w/ Media

GFX: SLI config w/ 2 X512MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX4500 cards in graphic riser

Memory: 64GB, DDR2 SDRAM FBD Memory, 533MHz, ECC in Riser (16 DIMMS)

HDD Config:
C3 All SATA drives, Non-RAID, 4 drive total configuration

HDD Internal Controller: SATA/SAS Integrated Card - For Connecting Internal Hard Drives

1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Hard Drives: 160GB SATA, 10K RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache™

Optical: 48X CD-RW AND 16X DVD+/-RW, Data Only

Floppy & Media Card Reader: Floppy Drive and Dell 13 in 1 USB Media Card Reader

USB Memory Key: 512MB Dell™ USB 2.0 Hi-Speed Memory Key

1st Monitor:
Dell 19 inch UltraSharp™ 1907FP Flat Panel, adjustable stand, VGA/DVI

2nd, 3rd, and 4th Monitors:
Dell 20 inch UltraSharp™ 2007FP Widescreen, adjustable stand, VGA/DVI

Other:
Bluetooth Keyboard and mouse
Dell USB 2-Button Optical Mouse w/ Scroll
Mouse Pad (an expensive $3)


Again, Final Price: $59,369

The 64GB of memory cost $49,500.
 
I can't think of a single use that 64GB of RAM would get you with only two CPUS. Maybe a farm, but may times those have more CPU's.


You could use it for web/file/hosting but if you were going to have the rest of those specs you would prabally have more HD space, and you still woudln't use that much ram :)
 
Instead of using like 50k's worth of ram on there cant you just get a SATA 3gbps 60GB drive and somehow configure it to work as ram?:)
 
Bootup05 said:
Instead of using like 50k's worth of ram on there cant you just get a SATA 3gbps 60GB drive and somehow configure it to work as ram?:)
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that would be a damn big page file :)
 
You probably cant run any games on it considerings it uses Linux. But its still ridiculous. My dad has servers like those for his company, just not with 64GB of RAM.
 
I woulnd't get those GFX cards though. You could save a few grand and get gaming cards with the same, if not better, performance.
 
Quadro cards are not for gaming, you could get better performance in games from a $10,000 system. even a $5,000 if you stretched it. No games use 64Gb of RAM and no games currently exceed the graphics memory bandwidth of AGP8x (to my knowledge, new ones might reach it, not sure) so really, your not gonna get that much more out of it, the bottleneck is in fact the game, not the hardware.

The only advantage to it would be futureproofing.

dragon
 
Heh, i wonder what the first computer to come standard with 64GB or ram will be. Hell, i wonder what app would use 64gb....
 
Motoxrdude said:
Heh, i wonder what the first computer to come standard with 64GB or ram will be. Hell, i wonder what app would use 64gb....
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It would probably a company that Dell or HP hired so that to use it, you have to buy more ram from them.
 
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