[Info-vax] Office Friendly Kit for rx2620

[MG]

On 4-11-2011 2:33, Dennis Grevenstein wrote:
> If you really plan to run this 24/7 than the 150 USD will
> be a fine price.

150 EUR, not USD!  The price I (was) quoted in USD was 350.


> I used to run a zx6000 as a server. I finally replaced
> itwith a PC and paid for the PC just with the savings
> on thenext electricity bill. (just one year). To me,
> Itanium isn'tsinking like the Titanic. It's mostly
> burning like theHindenburg.

The impressive Von Hindenburg may've been burning, but
it's definitely better than to flame, right?

All of that good fun aside, this just so happens to be the
comp.os.VMS usenet/newsgroup.  VMS, as may've occurred to
you, runs on IA-64 and therefore I run IA-64.  I also just
so happen to really and actually like VMS and I'm not all
that terribly interested in PC mediocrity.  But thanks for
the suggestion though, it was a worthwhile try I guess.


> The rest of the machine still produces a whole lot of heat.
> In the classic rackmount configuration the system is louder
> because the fans spin so fast that the machine survives a
> full rack of other machines. With the silent fans you can't
> rackmount the system as you would expect it from a server.
> If you want to save electricity, you could take out a CPU,
> but then again, this would also reduce the fun.

In an air-conditioned room or data center, perhaps.  During
the summer my rx2620s had difficulty staying up and running
all the time and all all at once (four nodes for periods).

My rx2600s never had that problem.  It seems like the non-
"Office Friendly" rx2620s have been 'tuned' differently to
run at far higher default fan speeds.

The type of processor doesn't seem to affect things much
(or at all) either, because I initially had "Madison 9M"
type processors before the "Montecito" types, in case you
were wondering if that should make a difference.

  - MG