Computation Server for under £1000
I was daydreaming and wondering what it would cost to get a top-of-the-range processing server with normal desktop components. Then I set myself the challenge of putting together a shopping list for a powerful computation machine (to do video transcoding, for example) for under £1000. Obviously, Core i7 processors are out - they're fast, but very expensive. For fast computation, you want plenty of RAM (no slooow HDD I/O), but enough hard drive storage for decent backups of large amounts of raw data. So here's the shopping list: Qty @ subtotal Mobo 1 £89.99 £89.99 from Novatech CPU 1 £159.98 £159.98 from Novatech RAM 1 £229.19 £229.19 from Crucial Graphics 1 £19.99 £19.99 from Novatech HDD 5 £54.98 £274.90 from Novatech CPU Cooler 1 £32.99 £32.99 from Novatech PSU (1000W) 1 £169.99 £169.99 from Novatech Total £977.03 I probably went a bit overboard with 7.5TB of storage (6TB with RAID 5), but feh. I haven't included shipping with that, but i