cheapest place

[Starbucks]

wheres the cheapest place to buy a dual xeon server?

[djcomplex]

www.dabs.com
www.kingston.co.uk

if your planning on using that for PA i should worry more about a decent raid card than some dual xeons however sexy they may be

[Miserableman]

www.letsbuyit.com are selling dual Xeon servers for £800 atm :o

[MT]

Originally posted by Miserableman
www.letsbuyit.com are selling dual Xeon servers for £800 atm

You work for letsbuyit.com dont you?


You won't need more than P III's to run PA, what you will need is a decent SCSI RAID card and a bunch of decent SCSI disks - at least 3, running in RAID-5, you could probably use 6 in the DB server.

If you want decent throughput, you will want to have a PCI-X mobo, preferabley one with those sexy 133 MHz PCI-X slots (Intel 75000 ?), so you can get the full 1 GB/sec out of your PCI bus.

Another key point will be inter-server communication - Gigabit Ethernet all round. The speed of your processor is not going to be _that_ important.

[MT]

Originally posted by Miserableman
www.letsbuyit.com are selling dual Xeon servers for £800 atm

Dual Xeon 500 MHz's tho ...