[Bendug] The next schweet??

[pauld@bendtel.net]

Damn.  14GB RAM.... that's SHWEET

14 CPU's?  Man, that is cool.  even at 400Mhz/ea.

But it's true, that's like the old Shweet on roids.  Retro & awesome...
but still dead slow on a PG mega-query.

Dang... 14Gig of RAM though...

> 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
>