Supermicro H8DC8 + 2x Opteron 275s + 4x4GB PC2700 ECC SATA RAID, U320 RAID, SLI capable Start Price USD 450.00 Current Price USD 450.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, September 30, 2008 End Time Tuesday, October 07, 2008 Location Rio Rancho, NM See more about 'Supermicro H8DC8 + 2x Opteron 275s + 4x4GB PC2700 ECC' Description  IMPORTANT:  These assets are offered "as-is" with no returns, guarantees, or claims as to working condition.   All of these parts have been in use for the past 6 weeks in a test ESXi configuration that has been running 7 VMs without issue.  It should be noted that this combo is being listed relatively barebones.  What's listed is what's included, nothing more, nothing less: 1x Supermicro H8DC8 motherboard, 2x AMD Opteron 275 CPUs with AMD heatsinks, 4x 4GB PC2700 ECC Registered DDR RAM The great thing about this combination is the expansion options for I/O.  There's dual channel onboard SCSI w/HostRAID and the option for an add-in ZCR card for hardware RAID.  Also, the two IDE channels are seen as block SCSI devices to ESX(i) thanks to the Nvidia CK04 controller.  The SATA channels are also on the same controller, and are also seen as block SCSI devices.  This means that you can use the VMFS file system on regular SATA and IDE drives.  In addition to this, there's the ability to run SLI via the Nvidia Professional chipset (although I do not have the SLI bridge...you'll have to find someone else's listing for that).  This board allow for PCI-E, PCI, and PCI-X expansion cards, giving you a great amount of flexibility in you expansion options. This combo is currently running, more pictures available on request. Current Retail values: Motherboard $350 CPUs $140 x2 = 280 RAM $562 x4 = 2248 TOTAL = $2878 Motherboard: http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron/nForce/H8DC8.cfm  RAM (4x): http://www.keenzo.com/showproduct.asp?ID=974448 CPU (2x): http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8796_9240,00.html       Place a Bid!