By Saker Klippsten - As many of you know I source lots of network equipment from ebay. My Latest Ebay snag are? 5 Z800 workstations.

Needed to build some more Avid machines and my Z400's do not have enough slots to handle all the cards. I also needed to build a couple more Play back machines using RVIO and a couple decked out Heiro machines to compliment our Flame Ops. While I typicaly use supermicro for everything. I stick with HP for Avids, Flames and Dedicated Playback machines because of how versatile the Z800 is as well as quiet. It has plenty of power and slots. I purchased them really for the Chasiss and motherboard. I have a bunch of X5690 procs I am going to stick in there and ram as well but not bad only spent only 3,490.00 for 5 decent workstations. Specs below.

1. Graphics Card
2. PCoIP Card
3. Black Magic Card/AJA/Avid Card
4. Chelsio Card
5. Atto FC41 card for Unity

So I went onto ebay and snappged 5 of these? Z800 for dirt cheap. There are 7 left!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=321110289854

Specs

HP Z800

Single Intel Xeon Quad X5550 (2.66GHz)

12GB ram ( 3 - 4GB Dimms )

1TB HDD

1GB FX3800

DVD-RW SAS PORTS

-S