New machine - what do you reckon

[tricky]

I'm building a trial machine for a new branch to our renderfarm. What do you reckon:-

Shuttle SN25P box - S939 nForce 4 Ultra MCP PCI-E
Athlon 64 X2 4400+ S939 1MB
DabsValue GeForce 6200 128/16MB TC PCI-E graphics card (cheapest I could find!)
Corsair 2x1GB 2x184DIMM PC3200 CL3
Seagate Barracuda 200GB ATA drive (far too big I know, but it was lying around in the office!)
External DVD player/writer for installing
WinXP 64bit OEM

[nvanherpt]

gig network card?

what's that setup costing you? if ya don't mind me being nosey

[tricky]

around about 750 quid. You could probably do it cheaper if you hunted around.

[jow]

you mite need a floppy drive for installing sata drivers,i did....

[tricky]

That would be both annoying and a bit archaic. Goods 'should' arrive today, so I'll let you know.

[instinct]

We recently added a batch of 2 Units 19" Servers to our farm. I did unattended installs for all of them. Worked pretty nicely and no floppy needed (SATA too).

Thorsten