looks good. I'm wondering why the video machine priced out so expensively; seems high. Don't necessarily need two drives in the display machine. Does the video machine really just have one PCI slot? that won't do well.. I'd shy away from putting Matrox G450s on anything but the display machine, due to the Linux issues. You may want to track down some Ensoniq AudioPCI cards instead of the PCI512 (aka SBLive); I've heard from some of hte driver developers that there are hardware reasons that hte PCI512 won't perform as well with full duplex audio. --bob At 12:31 PM 3/29/2001 -0600, Satish Devarapalli wrote:

Hi all,

I am Satish Devarapalli from Illinois Institute of Technology. we are in the process of building a node. below is the configuration information for the display,video,audio and control machines. please tell me your suggestions on this configuration.

Details: __________

Display Machine

Processor 2 Pentium III 850Mhz/100 w/256K Cache Intel MotherBoard 1 Dual RDY, Cache on CPU, BX Chipset Super DBE BoardSpecs 1 (5)PCi,(2)ISA (1 is shared), AGP Video BoardSpecs 1 AMI BIOS, Ultra DMA IDE ON BOARD BoardSpecs 1 4 DIMMS, Wake-on-Lan, USB Memory 1 256 MB SDRAM, DIMM, 133Mhz ECC Disk 2 18GB, 10,000 RPM, LVD 160MB/Sec 4MB Cache Seagate SLEDS 2 Removable Cannister, w/ Fan & Key Lock LED for IDE Floppy 1 3.5" Floppy and System Cabling MPF-920-1-131 PC Card Reader 1 PCMCIA PC Card Reader 0260.307.001 CD ROM 1 52X Sony IDE CD-ROM Tape Drive 1 Iomega Zip Drive 100MB, IDE Wide Ctrlr 1 PCi LVD Ultra 160 SCSI Controller 160Mb/Sec Adptc29160U Video Brd 1 32MB Millenium G450 Dual MATROX Ethernet 1 Intel PCI Pro/100+ Server Adapter PILA8470 Sound 1 PCI-512 Soundblaster CT 4790 Creative Labs CPU ATX Rack 1 4U BLACK Rackmount (8)5.25" Bays, 300 Watt Rack Rails 1 Sliding Rails (one per rack shelf) RACK-6CA300 Keyboard 1 104 SAG Keyboard & 3 Button Logitech Mouse Warranty 1 3 Year Warranty SERVICE 1 1 Year NBD on-site, Banctec Workstation

System Total 1 $3,021 Shipping not included. __________________________________________________________________

Video Machine Server 1 Processor 2 Pentium III 866Mhz/133 w/256K Cache Intel MotherBoard 1 Dual RDY PIII, FCPGA Super 370DER BoardSpecs 1 (1) 64bit 66MHz PCI Slot BoardSpecs 1 up to 4GB SDRAM, 4 DIMMS BoardSpecs 1 Integrated Ethernet, Int. 160 SCSI Memory 1 256 MB SDRAM, DIMM, 133Mhz ECC, Registered Disk 2 18GB, 10,000 RPM, LVD 160MB/Sec 4MB Cache Seagate Floppy 1 3.5" Floppy and System Cabling MPF-920-1-131 CD ROM 1 52X Sony IDE CD-ROM CPU ATX Rack 1 2U BLACK Rackmount (4)3.5" Removable - 300 Watt CPU ATX Rack 4 1U White Rackmount (2)3.5" removable SCA bays, 245watt Rack Rails 5 Sliding Rails (one per rack shelf) RACK-6CA300 Warranty 1 3 Year Warranty SERVICE 1 1 Year NBD on-site Server

System Total 1 $3,238 Shipping not included __________________________________________________________________

Control Machine Processor 1 Pentium III 700Mhz/100 w/256K Cache Intel MotherBoard 1 Dual RDY, Cache on CPU, BX Chipset Super DBE BoardSpecs 1 (5)PCi,(2)ISA (1 is shared), AGP Video BoardSpecs 1 AMI BIOS, Ultra DMA IDE ON BOARD BoardSpecs 1 4 DIMMS, Wake-on-Lan, USB Memory 1 256 MB SDRAM, DIMM, 133Mhz ECC Disk, EIDE 1 10GB, IDE 5400 RPM, Ultra 66 SLEDS 1 Removable Cannister, w/ Fan & Key Lock LED for IDE Floppy 1 3.5" Floppy and System Cabling MPF-920-1-131 CD ROM 1 52X Sony IDE CD-ROM Video Brd 1 32MB Millenium G450 Dual MATROX Ethernet 1 Intel PCI Pro/100, Management Adapter PILA8461 Sound 1 PCI-512 Soundblaster CT 4790 Creative Labs CPU ATX Rack 1 4U BLACK Rackmount (8)5.25" Bays, 300 Watt Rack Rails 1 Sliding Rails (one per rack shelf) RACK-6CA300 Keyboard 1 104 SAG Keyboard & 3 Button Logitech Mouse Warranty 1 3 Year Warranty SERVICE 1 1 Year NBD on-site, Banctec Workstation

System Total 1 $1,752 Shipping not included __________________________________________________________________

Audio Machine Processor 1 Pentium III 700Mhz/100 w/256K Cache Intel MotherBoard 1 Dual RDY, Cache on CPU, BX Chipset Super DBE BoardSpecs 1 (5)PCi,(2)ISA (1 is shared), AGP Video BoardSpecs 1 AMI BIOS, Ultra DMA IDE ON BOARD BoardSpecs 1 4 DIMMS, Wake-on-Lan, USB Memory 1 128 MB SDRAM, DIMM, 133Mhz ECC Disk, EIDE 1 10GB, IDE 5400 RPM, Ultra 66 SLEDS 1 Removable Cannister, w/ Fan & Key Lock LED for IDE

Floppy 1 3.5" Floppy and System Cabling MPF-920-1-131 CD ROM 1 52X Sony IDE CD-ROM Video Brd 1 ATI 8MB AGP Video ATI Ethernet 1 3COM PCI 10/100 10BaseT, RJ45 3C905-TX Sound 1 PCI-512 Soundblaster CT 4790 Creative Labs CPU ATX Rack 1 4U BLACK Rackmount (8)5.25" Bays, 300 Watt Rack Rails 1 Sliding Rails (one per rack shelf) RACK-6CA300

Warranty 1 3 Year Warranty SERVICE 1 1 Year NBD on-site Server

System Total 1 $1,545 Shipping not included

Thank you in advance Satish ____________________________________________________________________________ Satish Devarapalli Illinois Institute of Technology 3140 S.Michigan Avenue, #801 Chicago, IL-60616 ph:(312)-791-1180