Note, the seller contacted me on my order and said it was for the motherboard only. Actually a decent price if they are selling these for $182 and you were in the market... but very misleading.
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OK so this is either the deal of the century due to closing out an old model OR I am going to lose over $220. Please do not buy this one unless you do not mind potentially losing $225 or so as I am guessing there is something I missed. Also, please respect the #1 rule of deal sites... do not contact the seller and try keeping to this site because my guess is folks here will use a chassis and can use a break.
The deal is for a Supermicro SYS-7046A-HR+ (specs here) which is a 4U workstation chassis that includes a dual socket LGA 1366 workstation board (X8DAH+) that appears to be new.
The CSE-745TQ-R1400B that apparently is included is not on Supermicro's chassis page for the 745 series. Reading the part number would suggest black chassis with redundant gold level 1400w power supplies and 8x SATA / SAS hot swap bays.
I might have just gotten one for around $225 shipped. Here is the Amazon link to the deal as it is very hard to find otherwise (currently 6 left.) Picture is of a X7SPA series motherboard from what I can tell but the item description has the SYS-7046A-HR+ model number and says it is 63 lbs. The discount % seems correct. Looks like new they are in the $1,300 to $1,600 range normally. I see an open box "deal" on ebay from a reputable seller that has this same chassis (but only one) for $699 OBO.
For those wondering, one of the 1K4 series PSUs generally cost $225 alone, and the X8DAH+ runs around $250-400 on ebay. My thought is I could either sell the motherboard and keep the chassis or just buy some inexpensive CPUs for it. The board does have the dual IOH configuration so you get 2x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots, 4x PCIe 2.0 x8 slots and 1x PCIe 2.0 x4 slot. Taking that alongside the 8-bay hot swap (and room for more) it could be a decent storage server head.
Again, I think this is a very high-risk purchase so not something to post elsewhere. I will let everyone know what arrives somewhere between September 7 and September 24 (no express delivery option.)
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OK so this is either the deal of the century due to closing out an old model OR I am going to lose over $220. Please do not buy this one unless you do not mind potentially losing $225 or so as I am guessing there is something I missed. Also, please respect the #1 rule of deal sites... do not contact the seller and try keeping to this site because my guess is folks here will use a chassis and can use a break.
The deal is for a Supermicro SYS-7046A-HR+ (specs here) which is a 4U workstation chassis that includes a dual socket LGA 1366 workstation board (X8DAH+) that appears to be new.
The CSE-745TQ-R1400B that apparently is included is not on Supermicro's chassis page for the 745 series. Reading the part number would suggest black chassis with redundant gold level 1400w power supplies and 8x SATA / SAS hot swap bays.
I might have just gotten one for around $225 shipped. Here is the Amazon link to the deal as it is very hard to find otherwise (currently 6 left.) Picture is of a X7SPA series motherboard from what I can tell but the item description has the SYS-7046A-HR+ model number and says it is 63 lbs. The discount % seems correct. Looks like new they are in the $1,300 to $1,600 range normally. I see an open box "deal" on ebay from a reputable seller that has this same chassis (but only one) for $699 OBO.
For those wondering, one of the 1K4 series PSUs generally cost $225 alone, and the X8DAH+ runs around $250-400 on ebay. My thought is I could either sell the motherboard and keep the chassis or just buy some inexpensive CPUs for it. The board does have the dual IOH configuration so you get 2x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots, 4x PCIe 2.0 x8 slots and 1x PCIe 2.0 x4 slot. Taking that alongside the 8-bay hot swap (and room for more) it could be a decent storage server head.
Again, I think this is a very high-risk purchase so not something to post elsewhere. I will let everyone know what arrives somewhere between September 7 and September 24 (no express delivery option.)