Stan- I recently needed to acquire an box with the same requirements... So on to Ebay ugh... and found:
These cases are well laid out and very quiet too. Got this with an offer of $80 per unit. plus $30 ship http://cgi.ebay.com/2U-Server-Case-Asus-KFSN4-DRE-SAS-AMD-2x-Opteron-2214-/130492425232?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item1e61f46410 This is the 1.8Ghz Hex core it burns 40W and puts out no heat.. So you can safely use passive cooling. I got with an offer of $70 per unit. http://cgi.ebay.com/New-AMD-Opteron-2419-EE-Six-Core-1-8-Ghz-CPU-SKT-1207-/200575504776?pt=CPUs&hash=item2eb33b5188 This is the like the lots of ram I bought. http://cgi.ebay.com/16GB-4X4GB-DDR2-MEMORY-RAM-PC2-5300-ECC-REG-DIMM-/330515912349?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cf448969d So 1 2u case with Asus KFSN4-DRE $110 with shipping. 2 2x 2419 EE hex core $160 32Gb ddr2 667 ecc reg $580 So for little over a grand with drives you can have a solid used 12 core box. -Kristian
