Armari Gravistar XRS Comparison System
Shortly before the release of the ATI Radeon X1800 XT and friends, we previewed the Gravistar XRS system used as comparison to the Paxville box for this article. The original plan was to review the XRS separately, then pit Paxville against it around about this time after we'd looked at it. Other things got in the way of that plan, sadly, so we're left showing you the bits and bobs inside it now, before we get round to looking at it discretely at some point in the future. With Paxville DP the top Intel dual-processor, dual-core workstation platform, 2-way, dual-core Opteron is the natural choice on the AMD side of the fence.Here's the spec of the Gravistar XRS in full.
| Armari Gravistar XRS Comparison System | |
|---|---|
| Processor(s) | 2 x AMD Opteron 280, 2400MHz, dual-core 2000MT/s bus, 1MiB L2 per core, Socket 940 |
| Memories | 4 x 1GiB DDR2-400, Registered, ECC 2 DIMMs per processor |
| Mainboard | Supermicro H8DCE |
| Graphics | 2 x PNY Quadro FX 3450, 256MiB, PCI Express NVIDIA NV41GL, 425/500, SLI |
| Audio | Supermicro H8DCE on-board AC'97 |
| Fixed Disks | 4 x Seagate 250GB SATA w/NCQ nForce4 PRO RAID0+1 |
| Optical Disks | Sony DRU-810A dual-layer DVD writer IDE, nForce4 PRO |
| Chassis | Supermicro SuperServer 743T-645W 645W PSU, 8 SATA hot-swap bays |
| Operating System | Windows XP Professional 64-bit Service Pack 2 |
