Tom
An Old Friend
Well, I'm into a rental and got my cable connection back. I'm starting to look into my next PC purchase.
Upgrade and expandability are focus. I want it to allow me to be graphic intense but also generic computing. Price is an issue as in how long I have to wait to get it.
I'm also researching possibly building one.
I would love to have some feed back...
Xi MTower 64 AGE-SLI
[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] Based on the [/font] new AMD Athlon 64 and 64 FX55 (2.6GHz) with Quanti-Speed™ Architecture, and NVIDIA® NForce™ 4 Chipset with SLI technology, the Xi® MTower™ 64 AGE-SLI, is the winner for Gaming and Graphical applications where value without compromises is a must. Capable of the fastest AMD clock speed of 2.6GHz clock the Athlon 64 FX55, with 1024KB L2 Cache, and with 2x NVIDIA® 6800 ULTRA PCIe SLI our MTower delivers the absolute most cost effective and powerful PC graphic experience!
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[font=Arial, Helvetica] AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Interleave 925pin
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[font=Arial, Helvetica]Athlon upgradeable to 4000+ & FX55 (2.6Ghz)
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[font=Arial, Helvetica] 128KB L1, 512KB L2 Full Speed Cache
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[font=Arial, Helvetica] Full Size ATX MoBo, 2xPCIe, SLI - USB 2.0.
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[font=Arial, Helvetica]NVIDIA NForce 4 Chipset
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[font=Arial, Helvetica] RAM exp to 4GB PC3200 (400MHz) DDR
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[font=Arial, Helvetica]SATA3, USB2.0, 7.1 SPDIF Sound 1494
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[font=Arial, Helvetica]SLI SNVIDIA 6600 256MB, Dual Head DVI-TVout
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[font=Arial, Helvetica]460W UL P.S. New Tool Free Xi Mid-Tower w/7 bays
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AMD [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica]Opteron[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]™ 240 Ex[/font][font=Arial, Helvetica]p. to 2x240/24[/font][/font][font=Arial, Helvetica]4 [/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]
[font=Arial, Helvetica]1024KB L2 Multi-way associative Cache [/font]
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Dual 333MHz DDR ECC Reg. RAM Banks to 16GB
2 x 1GB Ethernet (10/100/100) on board LAN
4 x USB 2.0, On board ATI Rage Video
[/font] [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica]2 x [/font][/font][font=Arial, Helvetica][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]150MB/s.[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] S[/font]ATA [/font]Controller.[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][font=Arial, Helvetica].
Exp. to SCSI 320 & RAID Mode 0/1/5/10
[/font] Dual Redundant Hot Swappable [font=Arial, Helvetica]4[/font][/font][font=Arial, Helvetica]50W UL Power Supply[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] [font=Arial, Helvetica]
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[font=Arial, Helvetica]Tool Free [/font][/font][font=Arial, Helvetica]Locked [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]case on wheels w/14[/font] or 24 [/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][font=Arial, Helvetica]x51/4" bays
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Chassis intrusion switch with intrusion connector
[/font][/font] [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]AMD[/font]®[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] Opteron™ Processor 240 (1.40GHz), 2 way scalable
Two Opteron™ 64Bit sockets upgradeable to [/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]2 x [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica]244 (1.80GHz) [/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]64Bit CPU [/font] [font=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]
[/font] 512 MB PC2700 ECC Registered RAM exp to 12GB, 6 x PC2700 DIMM Banks ECC [font=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]
[/font] 2 way HyperTransport™ AMD 8111™ Chipset, 1024KB L2 Multi Way Associative Cache [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]
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[/font] [font=Arial, Helvetica]2 x 1GB Ethernet (10/100/1000) on board LAN, 4 x USB 2.0, On board ATI[/font]®[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica] Rage Video[/font] [font=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]
[/font] [font=Arial, Helvetica]4 channel Silicon-Image[/font]®[font=Arial, Helvetica] 150MB/s. SATA RAID Controller supporting RAID Mode 0, 1 & 10[/font] [font=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]
[/font] Standard base motherboard info: motherboard-link [font=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]
[/font] 15" Optiquest Viewsonic Monitor .28dp Flat Square Tube PNP 1024x768NI [font=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]
[/font] Logitech OEM "2+Wheel" Black optical mouse with @Xi® Mouse Pad [font=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]
[/font] 104+ key Web keyboard standalone or 1U rack mount with trackball [font=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]
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[/font] 4 Ventilation Ball Bearing Fans thermo-controlled [font=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]
[/font] New Tool Free Security Key Xi® NetRAIDer™ case on wheels w/14x51/4" bays
Dimensions: 24"H x 19"W x 16" D, (optional 21 bays) Double Front panel with security lock
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[/font] Double side panel with security lock. 460W Dual Hot Swappable UL Power Supply [font=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]
[/font]4xThermo-controlled output Fans, Chassis intrusion switch with intrusion connector
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[/font] Support for Microsoft® Windows® Server & RedHat® Linux® 9 Server and 64Bit versions [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] Xi® NetRAIDer™ 64 Network RAID Server[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] [/font] [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Full size pedestal and 4U Rack, Enterprise Network Server[/font], [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]with the newest and most revolutionary, 64 bit AMD [/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Opteron[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]™[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] processor, sporting a 2 and 4 way SMP HyperTransport[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]™ scalability, 64Bit architecture with 1MB (1024KB) multi-way associative /L2 Cache & independent (per each processor) integrated DDR RAM Controller. The motherboard, based on the AMD-8111™ chipset with HyperTransport, allows inter-processor data transfer [/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]up to 50 times faster than previous BUS technologies.[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] Expandable to 16GB DDR-SDRAM ECC Registered, or 32GB on four separate independent memory interleave BUS, the Xi®[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] [/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] NetRAIDer™ 64 [/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]offers the highest performance/price computing power [/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]available today for an enterprise network server. On board 4 Channel SATA RAID controller, [/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]dual 1GBit (10/100/1000) Ethernet network interfaces and optional Adaptec[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]®[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] SCSI 320 RAID, make this unit the ideal choice for the most demanding Enterprise data and application Servers. Fully tested and supported for x86 32-Bit LINUX[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]®[/font] or Windows® Operating Systems, the Xi NetRAIDer[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]™[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] 64 is also available with a growing options of true 64-Bit OS. [/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The Xi NetRAIDer 64 comes with a dual redundant HOT Swappable power supply and a secure locked 14 & optional 21 bays double width Server Case, both supporting 2 or 4 Opteron Processors. Optional rack mount on a 4U form factor is also available for the 2 processor version. A 6U version supports both the 2 and 4 processors configuration.[/font]
More to come...:working:
Upgrade and expandability are focus. I want it to allow me to be graphic intense but also generic computing. Price is an issue as in how long I have to wait to get it.
I'm also researching possibly building one.
I would love to have some feed back...
Xi MTower 64 AGE-SLI
[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] Based on the [/font] new AMD Athlon 64 and 64 FX55 (2.6GHz) with Quanti-Speed™ Architecture, and NVIDIA® NForce™ 4 Chipset with SLI technology, the Xi® MTower™ 64 AGE-SLI, is the winner for Gaming and Graphical applications where value without compromises is a must. Capable of the fastest AMD clock speed of 2.6GHz clock the Athlon 64 FX55, with 1024KB L2 Cache, and with 2x NVIDIA® 6800 ULTRA PCIe SLI our MTower delivers the absolute most cost effective and powerful PC graphic experience!
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Equipped with a 2.4-GHz Athlon 64 X2 4800+ CPU, 2GB of DDR400 SDRAM, a single EVGA E-GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics card, and two 300GB hard drives striped in a RAID 0 array, the MTower 64 AGE-SLI produced a WorldBench 5 score of 130, the highest yet.
Gamers will note that on our standard graphics tests, which run Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Unreal Tournament, the MTower 64 achieved 280 frames per second, the second-fastest rate we've seen. (The fastest was 283, posted by the Polywell Poly 939N-FX55.) On tests using Doom 3 and Far Cry, designed to gauge high-end graphics capabilities, the single-card MTower 64 AGE-SLI was even more impressive: Its frame rates beat out the dual SLI systems at both 1024-by-768 and 1600-by-1200 resolutions on Far Cry and at 1024 by 768 on Doom 3.
When you're ready to turn this system into a dual-SLI machine, it can be upgraded to full SLI status by adding a second EVGA E-GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics card to its second PCI Express x16 slot.
The MTower 64's case feels a bit cheap, given the system's price, but the interior is well organized, uncluttered, and easy to access; two big thumbscrews hold the cover in place. The two empty hard drive bays and three empty optical drive bays are easily reached, as are all of the expansion slots and RAM sockets.
Getting the motherboard's onboard sound hardware to work properly required us to flash the system BIOS twice, a bug that should be fixed by the time you read this. Currently Xi is offering free Audigy sound cards on new units as a way of bypassing the problem. When we did get the audio working, the Logitech X-530 speaker system sounded great. The five satellite speakers were crisp and accurate, although the bass from the subwoofer seemed slightly distorted at high volumes.
Small (6.8-point) type was readable on the ViewSonic VP191b flat-panel display but wasn't the sharpest we've seen. Likewise, colors were realistic, but they didn't jump off the screen. The control buttons on the front of the display were hard to read and easily confused with the power button.
The Logitech cordless keyboard and mouse are a plus. The keyboard has a sturdy feel, solid key action, and comes with lots of programmable buttons for launching programs, going to Web sites, and controlling your sound system.
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[/font][/font] [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]AMD[/font]®[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] Opteron™ Processor 240 (1.40GHz), 2 way scalable
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[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] Base price:[/font][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] $1,949.00[/font][/font]
More to come...:working: