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I ordered one of these from Amazon a month ago and have it completely setup, I have really enjoyed the unit and would recommend it to anyone. You get the case, 600w power supply, motherboard, etc.
I picked mine up and ordered two Xeons from Ebay, added some ECC DDR2 and a Dell Perc5i raid controller. I also ordered the add on 6 drive hot swap cage new on Ebay for $75 and after Microsoft Live cashback it was had for around $55 shipped.
I do not have a lot of money in this server but it is running ESXi as I speak and not flinching with quite a few VM's running. The fans are huge but I quieted them down with some Zalman controllers.
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-SE...&qid=1225506471&sr=8-1
Also here is a link to a picture so you can get an idea of the size of the unit, this was after mine was assembled.
SC5300 server
Motherboard specifications
Chassis Information
I picked mine up and ordered two Xeons from Ebay, added some ECC DDR2 and a Dell Perc5i raid controller. I also ordered the add on 6 drive hot swap cage new on Ebay for $75 and after Microsoft Live cashback it was had for around $55 shipped.
I do not have a lot of money in this server but it is running ESXi as I speak and not flinching with quite a few VM's running. The fans are huge but I quieted them down with some Zalman controllers.
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-SE...&qid=1225506471&sr=8-1
Also here is a link to a picture so you can get an idea of the size of the unit, this was after mine was assembled.
SC5300 server
Motherboard specifications
Chassis Information