Without memory, the prices are roughly:
4x846 = $5500 4x848 = $6500 4x850 = $8000
Memory costs would be:
16GB (1GB DIMMs) = $3000 32GB (2GB DIMMs) = $7500 64GB (4GB DIMMs) = $24000 128GB (8GB DIMMs) = $60000
The prices on the 4GB & 8GB DIMMs are bleeding edge of course. I see a wide range of for them on Froogle. You will want your vendor of course to pick memory is proper for the MB and pay whatever premium they'll charge ontop of it. (Looking at the Tyan website, they only list 2GB DIMMs as supported for their Quad Opteron MBs but whether that's because those specs were done before >= 4GB DIMMs were available or an actual hardware limitation, I dunno.)
Max wrote:
With a Quad Opteron (4 memory slots per CPU), you could put 64GB of RAM onto a single machine using 4GB DIMMs in every slot.
We were talking about a similar solution today, but not quite as good as this. You really got me thinking now. 64Gb.. hm that would solve many issues. what do you think the cost would be for such a beast ? Any idea ?
Max
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