[papasmurf]

Sweet!

Now that I have some Linux-ing under my belt, and I am pretty close to figuring what I like/need/want relative to Ubuntu distro’s, I was just thinking it’d be nice to purpose build an Ubuntu machine.

Bow I’ve got another thing to add into the mix to think about. :)

[ThePythonicCow]

Bow I’ve got another thing to add into the mix to think about. :)

The Itanium chips tend to be expensive, and tend to go with motherboards, power and memory that are expensive.

I have no actual numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if the usual Tuckwila configuration cost one to a few thousand dollars, per socket, for the combination of the chip, motherboard, memory and power.

If that's the sort of rig you give serious consideration to, excellent, go for it. It's a bit rich for my blood.