Servers are the new PCs
Get it while it’s hot!
This Acer Altos G330 is actually a server, but add a basic sound card and a decent video card and it makes an AWESOME home computer, at an insanely low price. £140? I might get two!
Dual core Xeon 3GHz 64-bit processor, supplied with 1Gb DDR2 RAM (but at these prices why not order 4×2Gb with it and have 8Gb of dual-channel memory?), hardware RAID support for 1,0,10, 6-channel SATA controller, onboard ethernet adaptor, and all the expansion slots you’d expect from a normal workstation.
This is a PCIE-based motherboard so you will only have 2 PCI slots for peripherals (e.g. for sound card and wireless adaptor). I therefore strongly recommend a PCIE x16 format graphics card, with an absolute minimum of 128Mb onboard RAM.
You will need Windows XP 64, Vista 64, or a 64-bit flavour of Linux to make the most of the processor.
Posted: July 18th, 2008 under Computing.
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