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Desktop Supercomputer

10 points posted to Desktops, Operating Systems by nelson 04/24/07

A desktop comptuer such as the PowerEdge 2900 (sockets for up to 2 quad core Xenon processors, memory expansion to 48 GB, $1,500) that can run XP Pro or Vista.

Encased in a black tower case with flashing CPU Status indicator lights styled as a downsized version of a RETRO 1970 supercomputer.





Note: This is a clarification of a previous post.

soneil
04/24/07		 Check the Precision Workstation
nelson
04/24/07		 You are right! The Precision 490 looks like the way to go. Too bad that it is so well hidden away from regular customers...
marco925
04/24/07		 You forget, those really cool motherboards have other features taken away from it, like good bandwidth for video cards. or other stuff consumers use. also, having 48GB of ram would be useless to you as of right now, and by the time you're ready to pop in 48GB of Ram, the DIMM speed and pin configuration will have been superseded by either DDR3, DDR4, or DDR5 or even QDR Ram, which would make current Speeds on these useless and bottlenecked for tomorow's applications.
reg
04/25/07		 Geek Sleek
nelson
04/25/07		 Good points about consumer features! There are probably also more issues about OS support for a second processor socket.

The point is to make something that
(1) Looks as powerful as it is.
(2) Can be easily expanded as RAM and processors become cheaper in the future.


In comparision, transparent CPU case cold cathode colored lights look slightly CHEESY:
jthurman
04/25/07		 I believe that XP Pro only supports 4GB of Ram, and it looks like 16GB fro Vista...
nelson
04/27/07		 Yes, but XP Pro x64 supports up to 128 GB of RAM:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/facts/top10.mspx
jorge
05/19/07		 Doesn't the use of Vista or XP render it non-super?
thunko
10/10/07		 Just for clarification, the big black box with the pretty blinking lights is from the 1990s, not 1970s.
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