More AMD price cuts
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Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Yay! I can officially cut WAY back on the number of PCs I own.
I'm going from 14 to eight, including two notebooks. X2s + gobs of RAM + VMware means I don't need half my computers any more.
I'm going from 14 to eight, including two notebooks. X2s + gobs of RAM + VMware means I don't need half my computers any more.
Mercutio said:
My plans are similar -- Replace my aging XP 2500'sand 3.2GHz P4's with fewer dual cores with lots of ram and then use vmware with terminal services to eliminate the need for KVM's/mice/keyboards/video cards/monitors. The only real difference is that I have not decided upon Woodcrest; Conroe; Socket F Opterons; or X2's. My inclination is go Intel - Woodcrest.
If I had to do it now, it would be X2's but I can wait till all the options are readily avail and make a judgement call then: I suspect, that there will be at least one more signifigent price cut (20%+) from AMD.
It'll be fun to see if I can get totally headless motherboards: Will operate without keyboard, mouse, or video card.
Bozo
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P5-133XL said:
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I've been running totally headless computers with Intel motherboards for a few years now. I use VNC to 'monitor' them. Is there something I'm missing???
Bozo :joker:
Gilbo
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Many can be configured to boot properly. You only need to plug a keyboard & monitor in the one time, and set the old "Halt on no errors" or some such. Most boards I've encountered have it buried in the BIOS somewhere.
Tannin
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Usually on the front page of the BIOS, actually. 386 boards used to do this. Outside of crap from the vomit box makers, I think everything does.
Tannin said:
All the boards I use have it at the bottom of the front screen.