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[Mrdredd]

http://www.colomachine.com/Colomachine-50B.htm

Does anyone know a company that can beat $399 for that machine?

I'll be ordering a couple off the bat.

[snickn]

Talk to Brian at rackmountsetc.com (sales@rackmountsetc.com) keep talking to him and eventually you might be able to get him under that price

But keep in mind that price isn't everything, I have one of the colomachine.com machines, and I honestly was not impressed, compared to the rackmountsetc machines.

[Mrdredd]

What is the advantage of rackmounts boxes over colomachines?

[snickn]

rackmounts are built better, they are more customized, better cooling...also you can get the 14" deep (half deepth) 1U that is equal to the full 1U that colomachine sells.

Colomachine.com's are just poorly built, they come with a white cdrom in a blackcase, I mean, how tacky is that?

Either way, I stress tested both and rackmounts' were just better, also the difference of quality hardware vs. whatever they could get cheapest.

If i'm mistaken the colomachine.com's come with 1.3celeron but the motherboard only supports 1.2 so they underclock them

[Mrdredd]

What the hell for real?

They underclock their CPUs?

How accurate is that information?

If thats true theyre off my list as far as the celerons go.

[snickn]

Ask them (if they wil tell you..) the version of the motherboard they use, it's a MSI if i'm not mistaken but I can't remember the model #, than check the site for that motherboard, and it'll list max CPU at like 1.2ghz. they advertise a 1.3ghz, hence to make the cpu work on the motherboard, they would have to underclock it.

I could be wrong, but on the unit I had, this seemed like a legit claim.

[Papa Smurff]

Try this guy. They made all the server for Hotmail

John Wu
Sales Manager
King Star Computer, Inc.
1259 Reamwood Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
TEL: (408) 736-8590
FAX: (408) 736-4151
john@kingstarusa.com
www.kingstarusa.com

[Mrdredd]

I contacted colomachine and received the following:

"No, they are running on Celeron at both 1.3GHz or 1.4GHz processing speed."

and

"I don't know where you get the false information. It is not true that you
need to lower the speed of the CPU. You can confirm this fact from MSI.
They should be able to tell you more technical detail about their product.

http://www.msicomputer.com

Jack Lee
ColoMachine "

I'll order a bunch and see how they work out

[snickn]

Interesting, well I'll have to speak to my source and see who is giving the false information. When you get your machines, let me know what model they are. I'd be interested in finding out again...I'm no longer with the company of which I purchased the test colomachine.com server for, so I can't know for sure.

[LinuxRigs]

If a motherboard only supports up to a 12x multiplier, and you get a cpu that required a 13x multiplier...it should either not work at all, or work fine. The cpu will force the multiplier, you can't choose a different one.

[LinuxRigs]

Just checked their site...looks like they're the only ones to support RadHat Linux. Now, that's rad!

[aarong]

Originally posted by LinuxRigs
Just checked their site...looks like they're the only ones to support RadHat Linux. Now, that's rad!

I thought it was RootHat?

[hostpak2]

Originally posted by nickn
rackmounts are built better, they are more customized, better cooling...also you can get the 14" deep (half deepth) 1U that is equal to the full 1U that colomachine sells.

Colomachine.com's are just poorly built, they come with a white cdrom in a blackcase, I mean, how tacky is that?

Either way, I stress tested both and rackmounts' were just better, also the difference of quality hardware vs. whatever they could get cheapest.

If i'm mistaken the colomachine.com's come with 1.3celeron but the motherboard only supports 1.2 so they underclock them

Man, you are full of it. Did you really use Colomachine’s 1U server before? Every server I got from them is in top quality and shape. The server CDROM are in black color as shown on their website.

The only problem I have with them is getting them to ship my servers faster.

[hostpak2]

Originally posted by nickn
Interesting, well I'll have to speak to my source and see who is giving the false information. When you get your machines, let me know what model they are. I'd be interested in finding out again...I'm no longer with the company of which I purchased the test colomachine.com server for, so I can't know for sure.

I thought so..

[ReliableServers]

Who gives a crap what color a cdrom is, specially if your just looking for something cheap and decent quality/parts. Its not like your buying a new car where everyone can see it, things are sitting in a datacenter where hardly anyone can see them.