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yay !!! good job ! now's the perfect time to do a BACKUP !

ooookay.

wow, you did some bit/byte number crunching in there ! and with 3 decimals precision :P is DSL the only choice in you area ? because no matter how fast it would get (VDSL2, etc) it will always be an asymmetric connection, and your upload (our download) will be one fifth of your download (our upload)...

isn't the Mk3 M520 an i5 rather than i3 ?

It's simple Rob, Xeon 5450, having the code name Harpertown, it's the server dual-socket version, based on Yorkfield architecture for Core 2 Quad and corresponding Xeons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpertown_(microprocessor)#Harpertown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkfield_(microprocessor) my ba...

that's a different beast (x3650 M3 version) - it should have twice the memory bandwidth (DDR3, 1333Mhz, QPI - new architecture), six-core CPUs, and more importantly, should lower you power bill (32nm, Integrated power gates: Allows reduction to idling cores at near-zero power ) it will cost more, i...

that's good news .
I'm still waiting to get one (MC7710) below $100, but the alerts I've set on ebay for that, still show over $140 listings
Did you have to do any pin21 mod, or had any driver issues ? I want to use one in my 19mk4 (using one Fujitsu Gobi2000 now).

cheapest I can find now, from the link, are from $20 - same price as Amz.

that's a different beast (x3650 M3 version) - it should have twice the memory bandwidth (DDR3, 1333Mhz, QPI - new architecture), six-core CPUs, and more importantly, should lower you power bill (32nm, Integrated power gates: Allows reduction to idling cores at near-zero power ) it will cost more, in...

are you sure about the RAM type ? if it's indeed the X3650 from the ebay link from your post, then it is DDR 2 667 FB-DIMM, because the Intel 5000P chipset only supports DDR2 (FB-DIMM/Registered/ECC). http://www-07.ibm.com/systems/includes/content/x/hardware/rack/x3650/downloads/XSO03034USEN.pdf htt...