[Bendug] The next schweet??

[Tim Howe]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:23:37 -0700
"Mark Turner" <amerine at gmail.com> wrote:

> I vote that we look into something like this for the next incarnation of
> shweet.
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Sun-Enterprise-4500-w-14x400Mhz-CPU-14GB-RAM_W0QQitemZ170009026088QQihZ007QQcategoryZ51238QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

	I've used 4500s.  They aren't that impressive unless fully loaded, and then they aren't very efficient as far as bang for buck (and power).  Also, Shweet hardware isn't really up for democratic debate since it has, so far, been exclusively provided by Paul ;)
	The current box, "BadBoy", is actaully not bad.  And I think Paul got it for less than $400 new.  It's a 2.8Ghz P4 with 1M cache and 800Mhz front side bus; 1Gig DDR 533MHz ECC RAM; 160G SATA drive; and what *looks* like a pretty decent Intel MB.  Even came sans OS :)

--TimH