[Gllug] Cheapest possible diskless nodes

[William Boughton]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:43:33PM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> OK, so I'm conducting soem gedankenpurchasing.
> Ie. I'm only thinking about buying things - 
> Christmas presents after al come first!
> 
> I saw some PCchips motherboards on offer on TCR the other day for
> fifty quid. Combining that with some PC-133 memory (512 megs 35 UKP)
> plus a PSU (20 quid) and a CPU - say 50 quid could make a cheap
> diskless node.

You could buy a LMR810 with a Duron 1200 glued on + fan with a stick
of 256mb ram for 85 quid last weeks at the computer fair.

Then it is a simple matter to linuxbios them and you've got a nice
netbooting compute node.

I'm considering buying one or 2 of these tomorrow if i'm feeling
upto going into london.  I'm wondering if i could get away
with one power supply /2 or more boards?

> 
> Or to get a case included Scan offer barebones Asus systems for 100 odd 
> quid, without CPU or memory.
> Say I'm looking for four of.
> 
> So anyone got good ideas on the cheapest motherboard/CPU/memory deals out
> there?

The lmr810s with glued cpued seem to be quite cheap, and it
also means you avoid the hastle of installing the cpu, and fan
which somtimes require quite a lot of force to fit.


murb
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Bill Boughton		<murble(at)@yuri.org.uk>
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