You may buy a cheap high-performance PC(Used Workstations).

I thought about buying a workstation, because the workstation is a high performance PC's.

Workstations are not designed to withstand higher loads with computers in general. Furthermore, it is a high performance and scalability. However, it is very expensive.

So, I thought the market is used. Used Workstations will be cheaper, even though the workstation was released a few years ago.

This time, I bought a HP XW8400 at auction.

8GB Memory

SAS hard disk 15000krpm

It is equipped with a CPU that two 'Xen 3.0G DualCore'.

It recognizes as 'Quad Core Processor'.

In early 2012,This spec new computers are expensive, I bought at 330 dollars.

It is cheaper and high performance, but the PC is large, heavy, noisy fan noise, high power consumption.

Caution:

The auction, such as The case of personal selling , Please check configuration properly.If the OS did not come with, you will need to be provided separately.

The computer will suffice running 3GB of memory.CPU for XW8400 There are equipped with two. However, this computer is enough cpu will work just one.(I often see a workstation that is sold equipped with only one CPU.)

Please note that they may be used PC parts have been removed.

PCI-Express ×16

PCI-Express ×4

PCI-Express ×1

Gigabit Ethernet card, 3 SAS based hard disk, Graphics card (ATI FireGL V3300) 3D games will work if this graphics card.

PC equipped with PCI-Express of the old days, there is no information in the manual revision generation version.

Use the HWiNFO32 In order to check the version of PCI-Express. HWiNFO32 is a free software.

That it "Gen1" you know. Because the transfer rate has been described "PCI-Express Version1.0 = 2.5Gb/s(2.5Gbps)".