Penguin Follower's Journal: Sweet eBay deal :)

Won an auction the other night on eBay. Paid $1100 (used) for hardware that costs right now about $2100 new. Parts were pulled from a 1 year old system (someone needed money bad to take a loss like that). And holy crap is this thing fast (and power hungry! O_O). I'm going to need a bigger PSU before I connect the rest of my hard drives!

Items that I received:

• Dual Intel Xeon X5355 Processors (details)
• Asus DSEB-D16/SAS Motherboard (details)
• Qty:4 of Kingston 2GB ECC DDR2 667 FB-DIMM CL5 modules
• ASMB3-SOL Server Management Board SO-DIMM IPMI (details)

The motherboard has a built in SAS controller (LSI Logic) that is supported by VMware ESX server - a plus since I intend to use this for virtualization. The max RAM capacity is more than I'll need (64GB). Additionally, there are 6 SATA ports, quad Gig-E NIC ports, and two full PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots and one x8 slot. There is also a single PCI-X slot at the front of the motherboard which is intended to be used with the optional Zero-Channel RAID adapter. It converts the built-in SAS controller to RAID.

Now I need to sell my two old servers. Both are old P4 based dual Xeon systems that were not 64-bit capable, hence the reason I went in search of this new monster.