Potential Specifcation & Cost for the Upgrade

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TeaLeaf

#15
July 23, 2002, 06:07:57 PM
Well I'll be.......  I just gave Epox a call and found out that their UK HO is only about 5 minutes away from me in Milton Keynes!  

Apparently the board you like Stryker is not normally available in the UK but they are going to see if they could get one and what the lead time and price would be.  I'll come back to you when I hear from them.

As for RAM, let's wait and see what they can do for us on the mobo price - it may or may not look attractive at that point!

Any second preference on the mobo as an alternative Stryker?

TL.
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

TeaLeaf

#16
July 23, 2002, 10:04:25 PM
OK, I had a reply from Epox via email within the hour - impressive!

They say that they stock another mobo called EP-4G4M+ which is identical to the EP-4GLM+ that I asked about except in one respect.  The EP-4G4M+ can accept an AGP card, the EP-4GLM+ cannot.

Dabs sell the EP-4G4M+ at £108.10 inc VAT.

Whaddya think?  Do we do this and suffer higher RAM costs or go with another mobo and cheaper RAM?  Your decision is awaited so that I can get on and buy it, then scrounge the money back from peeps.

Gandalf - did you have any thoughts or any success on price?

TL.
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

TeaLeaf

#17
July 23, 2002, 10:11:37 PM
Sorry, I forgot to add that the mobo suggested by Epox would make the shopping list look like this:

CPU £170 (Pentium IV 2.0Ghz)
Mobo £108 (Epox EP-4G4M+)
RAM £275 (1Gb DDR PC2700 from Crucial)

Total £553

It's £80 less (or so) if we have a different mobo with PC2100 RAM, but I think we need to close in on a decision now so that I can get me pimpin' rags on.

Come back........

TL.
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

Gandalf

#18
July 23, 2002, 10:20:08 PM
i'll see what i can do tomorrow. was maxed out today.  :?
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DogMeat

#19
July 23, 2002, 10:24:46 PM
I'd like to suggest that the £80 saved on the memory difference go toward a UDMA100 HD.  MH sits comfortably on a 10GB drive right now, but a larger/faster drive offers the prospect of more than 1 lag-less server...
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TeaLeaf

#20
July 24, 2002, 12:32:12 AM
Do you have one in mind DM?  If you think it will help, and we go for a different mobo with cheaper RAM, then let's add it to the list and see how much we can achieve.  Negotiate a deal with Stryker on the choice of mobo and we'll see what we can do.  We can but try....  8)

TL.
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

DogMeat

#21
July 24, 2002, 12:56:25 PM
How about:

WD HD IDE 40GB UDMA 100 7200RPM  (Reference #29759)
£59.00 ex. VAT  Â£69.33 inc VAT

http://www.ideal-computing.co.uk/acatalog/..._Drives_17.html
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TeaLeaf

#22
July 24, 2002, 02:59:54 PM
Stryker - I just need to know now whether or not I am going for the Epox mobo with the faster RAM, or an alternative with cheaper DDR RAM.

Cummon back good buddy........the I'll go a pimpin and a shoppin  8)
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

Stryker

#23
July 24, 2002, 07:23:00 PM
I guess we go for the epox motherboard... not sure on the ram.... if we had the faster ram the way I see it is we've had the best of the expensive components we can afford.  The other components are cheaper and can be upgraded later.  Also if we keep the current hard drive we dont have to start again with homer's setup....  bear in mind the upgrade will be onsite, I dont fancy spending 3 hours in a freezing boring server colocation facility.
-=[dMw]=-Stryker

TeaLeaf

#24
July 24, 2002, 07:42:05 PM
OK, so the wish list is finalised as:


CPU £170 (Pentium IV 2.0Ghz)
Mobo £108 (Epox EP-4G4M+)
RAM £275 (1Gb DDR PC2700 from Crucial)
WD HD IDE 40GB UDMA 100 7200RPM £69  (a bonus purchase if we get the full target).

Target: £622

I will assume that unless I hear to the contrary from someone before tomorrow morning, I have the go ahead to start pimping for the money - and we have already achieved one third of the target  8)

Thank you everyone for your input and prepare your self for some serious pimping........  :D

TL.
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

Gandalf

#25
July 24, 2002, 07:51:18 PM
can't you just duplicate one drive to the other. Most new drives come with disk dupe software anyway.
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Cake: Four large eggs. One cup semi-sweet chocolate chips. Three/four cups butter or margarine. One and two third cups granulated sugar. Two cups all purpose flour. Fish shaped ethyl benzene. Twelve medium geosynthetic membranes. Three tablespoons rhubarb, on fire.

TeaLeaf

#26
July 24, 2002, 07:52:49 PM
You can borrow my copy of drive image if it helps at all, but I'm sure you have your own stuff an all..... 8)
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

Gandalf

#27
July 24, 2002, 07:56:20 PM
assuming it's happy with linux partitions
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Cake: Four large eggs. One cup semi-sweet chocolate chips. Three/four cups butter or margarine. One and two third cups granulated sugar. Two cups all purpose flour. Fish shaped ethyl benzene. Twelve medium geosynthetic membranes. Three tablespoons rhubarb, on fire.

TeaLeaf

#28
July 24, 2002, 07:58:41 PM
:oops: errrr, my bad - I told you I'm not techincal - I should have known that DM wouldn't let Microsloath near the server  :oops:

Well, it was the thought that counted....

TL
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Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)
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