| Model |
AMD Four-Processor Opteron |
Apple Power Mac G5 Dual Processor |
Ipex Centra 9200RM Quad Processor Itanium2 |
Sun SunFire V240 |
| Vendor |
AMD |
Apple |
Ipex ITG |
Sun Microsystems |
| Web |
www.amd.com |
www.apple.com.au |
www.ipex.com.au |
www.sun.com/servers |
| Phone |
02 8877 7222 |
133 622 |
03 9242 5000 |
03 9869 6200 |
| Price range (min. to max. config) |
$13,000-$45,000 |
$3599-$5599 |
$23,000-$98,000 |
$6280-$19,574 |
| Price as tested |
less than $45,000 |
$5599 |
$56,000 |
$15,454 |
| Included standard warranty period |
Varies depending on vendor |
90 days |
3 years (return to base) |
One year (next business day on site warranty) |
| Extended warranty availability, duration and cost |
Varies depending on vendor |
AppleCare protection plan $449 |
Range of options; up to 24 x 7, with four-hour or two-hour response available |
3 years; Silver $4500, Gold $7848, Platinum $16,992 |
| Chassis |
Rackmount |
Tower |
Rackmount |
Rackmount |
| Rackmount chassis height |
4 RU |
N/A |
4RU |
2RU |
| CPU type (brand/model) |
AMD Opteron 846 |
Apple/IBM PowerPC G5 |
Intel Itanium 2 |
UltraSPARC IIIi |
| CPU speed (min/max) |
2.0GHz |
1.6GHz to 2.0GHz |
900MHz to 1.5GHz |
1GHz |
| CPU internal cache (min/max) |
128KB L1; 1MB L2 |
64KB L1 instruction cache, 32KB L1 data cache, 512KB L2 |
1.5MB-6MB |
1MB |
| Number of CPUs supported (min/max) |
1/4 |
1/2 |
1/4 |
1/2 |
| CPUs installed in test config |
4x Opteron 2.0GHz |
2x PowerPC G5 2.0GHz |
4x Itanium 2 1.2GHz |
2x UltraSPARC IIIi 1GHz |
| Memory (min/max/installed) |
256MB/16GB/4GB |
256MB/8GB/2.5GB |
1GB/32GB/4GB |
512MB/8GB/4GB |
| Memory type |
Registered DDR |
DDR PC2700 or PC3200 |
DDR233/266 |
DDR (PC2100) |
| HDD capacity (min/max) |
Any Ultra 160 or 320 SCSI HDD |
80GB/500GB |
36GB/441GB |
36GB/293GB |
| HDD interface |
Ultra 160/320 |
Serial ATA |
Ultra320 SCSI |
Ultra160 SCSI |
| HDD controller RAID capable |
Optional extra |
No |
Optional extra |
Optional extra |
| HDD bays |
4 |
No |
3 |
4 |
| Optical drive (type) |
DVD-ROM |
SuperDrive & DVD-R/CD-RW |
DVD-ROM |
DVD-ROM |
| Graphics processor |
ATI Radeon/8MB |
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra or ATI Radeon 9800 Pro |
ATI Rage XL/8MB |
VIS |
| Network chipset (brand/model) |
Broadcom |
Apple |
Intel 82540EM |
Sun Tomatillo 2.3 |
| Network ports |
2x 10/100/1000 |
1x 10/100/1000 |
1x 10/100/1000 |
4x 10/100/1000 |
| Connectors |
USB, Serial |
1x FireWire 800, 2x FireWire 400 ports, 3x USB 2.0, 2x USB 1.1 |
4x USB, 1x Serial |
2 x Serial, 2 x USB, 1 x LVD SCSI |
| Mainboard Chipset |
AMD 8000 |
Apple |
Intel 8870 |
Sun Tomatillo 2.3 |
| Mainboard expansion |
5x PCI-X 64-bit slots (2x hot plug) |
3x 64-bit PCI slots (1.6GHz model); 3x 64-bit PCI-X slots (other models) |
8x PCI-X slots (hot plug) |
PCI |
| Power Supply (watts)/hot swappable |
2 x 500W/Y |
1x 450W or 600W/N |
2 x 1200W/Y |
2 x 400W/Y |
| Operating Systems supported |
All x86/32 and x86/64 operating systems |
Mac OS X Panther v10.3, Mac OS X Panther Server v10.3 |
Windows 2003 64 bit edition, Linux, HP-UX |
Solaris 8, Solaris 9 |
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