[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Sun ships single Opteron with AGPx8 and 4 PCI-X busses!

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 14:25, David Simmons wrote:
> With all of these 'highend' specs...I'm totally baffled as to why they
> didn't include a few SATA ports?  I know that Linux support is just
> coming around - but it seems like they have a Ferrari engine with a VW
> transmission?

I thought they did include a few ports?

Look at the upper-left corner.  There is a Silicon Image chip just above
and slightly to the right of the AMD8111 and two SATA ports (alongside a
IEEE1394) just below the floppy (to the right of the parallel ATA).

> Thanks for the info/analysis,

I just called Sun.  These things actually start at $1,499!

Considering the "bottom" expansion and the CPU daughtercard connector, I
might buy one of these suckers.

The only kicker is the standard "Quadro" video.  I need to see if I can
buy it without it.  Otherwise the cheap NV17 (Quadro NVS280), equivalent
to the GeForce4 MX400 (GeForce2 core) will get bought and it'll be the
first thing I replace.


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Bryan J. Smith                                  b.j.smith at ieee.org 
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