Nuclear reactor hot!

[manno]

Go Here
and:
1) on the left in the "Gateway Recommends:" secction uncheck everything
2) Click "Customize & Buy"
3) In the "Special Offer" section check " $300 instant savings (limited time promotion) [ -US$300.00]"

No operating system included1
Gateway Systems Manager
(1) Intel® Celeron® D Processor w/ 2.80 GHz, 533MHz FSB and 256K L2 cache2
256MB 400MHz DDR ECC SDRAM (1x256MB module)
(1) 80GB SATA 7200rpm Fixed Hard Drive3
Integrated Dual-Port Serial ATA Controller (supports embedded RAID 0/1)
3.5" 1.44MB diskette drive
20x/48x IDE CD-ROM
1Yr parts, labor, HW tech support, on-site -- next business day, limited warranty4
Integrated PCI Graphics - 8MB
104+ keyboard and PS/2 Mouse and Gateway Mouse Pad
350 Watt Power Supply
Integrated 10/100 and GbE Ethernet
If for any reason you aren't completely satisfied with your Gateway® Server or Storage product, you can return it within 90 days of purchase
Deployment services available, please contact your sales person for custom pricing

peace
-manno

 

[imported_Kensai]

That's a server?

 

[ntdz]

Does it come with an slot for a video card?

 

[Jave]

Its Hot....just bought 2

 

[Liviathan]

no AGP.

 

[cy7878]

still need lot of parts to bring it up to speed.

$200 for a new video card
$150 for 2 DVDRs
$50-100 to get enough RAM ........


How is this Hot?

 

[delroy]

gateway has always been a tad sketchy to me...

 

[RaiderJ]

Originally posted by: Kensai
That's a server?

RAID 1/0 silly!

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: cy7878
still need lot of parts to bring it up to speed.

$200 for a new video card
$150 for 2 DVDRs
$50-100 to get enough RAM ........


How is this Hot?

1. no AGP slot so you wont need a $200 card
2. dont know you would need two DVDRs but NEC 3520's are $40 a pop @ newegg
3. another 512 of ram will only cost $30 or so if you know where to shop

to clarify, this isnt an ideal gaming computer, its a SERVER

 

[imported_Kensai]

Originally posted by: RaiderJ

Originally posted by: Kensai
That's a server?

RAID 1/0 silly!

Who uses RAID 1 or 0 in a server?
We use RAID 0+1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50.

 

[Mackie2k]

Can you use non-ECC ram?

 

[bryantp]

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: cy7878
still need lot of parts to bring it up to speed.

$200 for a new video card
$150 for 2 DVDRs
$50-100 to get enough RAM ........


How is this Hot?

1. no AGP slot so you wont need a $200 card
2. dont know you would need two DVDRs but NEC 3520's are $40 a pop @ newegg
3. another 512 of ram will only cost $30 or so if you know where to shop

to clarify, this isnt an ideal gaming computer, its a SERVER

Not sure why you would need TWO DVDRs either on a server. Depending upon your backup solution you may not need any. So the $30 worth of RAM plus an EXT. HDD setup (80GB$56.50 + IDE enclosure$29.99) might be a better solution. You could even look into Amanda as a solution.

 

[psxjunky]

never mind ... I was temporarily blind

 

[jpeyton]

Ground shipping is $29. Warm deal. Dell SC420 deals with a Pentium 4 are a little hotter, especially since it has a PCI-Express slot.

 

[mparr1708]

Originally posted by: Kensai

Originally posted by: RaiderJ

Originally posted by: Kensai
That's a server?

RAID 1/0 silly!

Who uses RAID 1 or 0 in a server?
We use RAID 0+1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50.

Actually a lot of people. I prefer a split backplane with 2 drives in a raid 1 for the os on the first channel and 3-4 drives in a raid 5 for data on the second. This would only be for a server housing quite a bit of data though. We use a lot of 1U servers that have 2 73gb 10K SCSIs in a mirror. 12GB for the OS Part and the rest for data.

Sometimes the most expensive solution is not always the most well suited for the situation.

All that being said I would struggle to call this a server. Although it is pretty similar to Dell's SC line. To me this would be a good serevr for a developers test network. A box that isnt going to get tagged that hard but need newer hardware so that your tests can somewhat reflect real world performance.

 

[manno]

Originally posted by: cy7878
still need lot of parts to bring it up to speed.

$200 for a new video card
$150 for 2 DVDRs
$50-100 to get enough RAM ........


How is this Hot?

Look I'm sorry if this cant be turned into a L337 lanparty box, but for a server machine it's a hot deal, it comes with 3 64bit PCI-X slots important for servers, especialy if you're upgrading from a machine that also used compatable cards. (note that's not PCI-E) Dual lan ports, and integrated video. For a small B, home/office, or some guy just slapping togeter a cheap home server it's a good deal. Why would a want an AGP/PC-e video card, with a loud fan, and dissapating enough heat to use fry eggs with?

And is it just me or is their site getting totaly slammed?

 

[blckgrffn]

Man, it seems to have died. To quite FW, "they must be hosting the website on one of these."



Nat

 

[blckgrffn]

$30 sales tax kills it for me...

 

[Richardito]

A couple of days ago I bought Dell Power Server 800 similar to this for $330 shipped & tax included. But it was better and included a P4 2.8 & 512mb DDR2 ECC. With shipping this gateway server gets close to $300. Still OK for a cheap computer.

 

[ttown]

good deal

well over $200 in parts there, plus 1yr ON-SITE warranty...

not a gaming machine, but nice price for a small business server

$150 more gets a p4 3ghz 800 fsb

 

[Greg04]

Originally posted by: manno

Originally posted by: cy7878
still need lot of parts to bring it up to speed.

$200 for a new video card
$150 for 2 DVDRs
$50-100 to get enough RAM ........


How is this Hot?

Look I'm sorry if this cant be turned into a L337 lanparty box, but for a server machine it's a hot deal, it comes with 3 64bit PCI-X slots important for servers, especialy if you're upgrading from a machine that also used compatable cards. (note that's not PCI-E) Dual lan ports, and integrated video. For a small B, home/office, or some guy just slapping togeter a cheap home server it's a good deal. Why would a want an AGP/PC-e video card, with a loud fan, and dissapating enough heat to use fry eggs with?

And is it just me or is their site getting totaly slammed?

I kept thinking, "what is an 'L-337' Lan party box?" ...getting old...

 

[mattocs]

It is a server...why do you need a good video card?

 

[msi1337]

the word "Gateway" alone makes this not hot... then the fact that they consider this some kind of server... well, that just about explains it

 

[AStar617]

Definitely hot if you need PCI-X, but lukewarm at best otherwise... a Dell SC420 is probably better suited to most users.

 

[Lanyap]

Originally posted by: blckgrffn
$30 sales tax kills it for me...

Their tax calculation is wrong for me. They estimated $47 tax. Looks like they are not including the $300 instant off and basing tax on the original $500.

Here is a link to the support page that has a link to the manual PDF.
http://support.gateway.com/s/Servers/COMPO/Cases/3501745/3501745ul.shtml