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Sun Fire V250
My Sun Fire V250's finally in my possession, and it's great to see that it boots! (It doesn't have a drive installed at this point though!)

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It's allot smaller than I expected it to be! (Here's how it compares to an SGI Tezro in size)

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I will be ordering the following parts from WildFire Systems in the UK in the upcoming months:

hard drive and sled for the machine
an XVR-1200
another CPU
8GB of RAM
a PC card
a tape drive

The machine is currently very low specced, but it wont be for long! (In the case of a machine such as the V250, the chassis is very hard to come by, but the upgrades are luckily much easier to source!)
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08-12-2021, 04:22 PM
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RE: SunFire V250
Congrats on the purchase Irinikus!
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08-12-2021, 05:04 PM
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RE: SunFire V250
(08-12-2021, 05:04 PM)Gamefan Wrote:  Congrats on the purchase Irinikus!

Thanks Man! Smile
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08-12-2021, 05:10 PM
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RE: Sun Fire V250
Looking forward to the videos!
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08-12-2021, 07:24 PM
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RE: Sun Fire V250
I look forward to playing around with it!

I just have one question, that hopefully someone can answer:

The XVR-1200 isn't officially qualified to run in this machine, only the XVR-100 and XVR-600 are officially! The mainboard is basically identical to that of a SUN Blade 2500, which is officially qualified to run the XVR-1200.

Is there any reason at all as to why an XVR-1200 wouldn't run in this machine? (It has PCI slots with the required specs!)

I am also going to buy a second power supply for the machine, taking its wattage to 920W, so power shouldn't be a problem!
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08-12-2021, 07:48 PM
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RE: Sun Fire V250
My best guess would be size constraints? There are certain XVRs that dont fit in my Ultra machines.
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08-13-2021, 12:31 PM
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RE: Sun Fire V250
Thanks for the input, but I doubt it, as it has more than enough space lengthwise to take full length cards and it's also deep enough to take "tall" cards.

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I will order an XVR-600 together with the XVR-1200, just in case.

My personal opinion is that the XVR-1200 wasn't given as an option, as this machine predated it by a year.
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08-13-2021, 12:46 PM
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RE: Sun Fire V250
(08-13-2021, 12:46 PM)Irinikus Wrote:  My personal opinion is that the XVR-1200 wasn't given as an option, as this machine predated it by a year.

Also, the XVR-1200 was a pretty powerful (and expensive) workstation graphics card.  The V250 was intended as a server that would normally run headless or maybe with minimal graphics capability.  I suspect that Sun didn't bother testing such a configuration since it didn't make sense for their product positioning.
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08-14-2021, 12:19 AM
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RE: Sun Fire V250
Your right! So I'll have to do some configuration testing then! Smile
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