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Surplus has an Octane2 sitting there smiling at me. Problem is, $180?

By #s it's a 400 R12K (CMN B015AN G400). Not sure how to tell if it's a dual w/o opening it. Being rusty as I am, and never having better than a V6 *sob* myself, I need help IDing this gfx option. And... is it worth $180? $140? (after 2 weeks), $100? (2 more weeks), etc., etc.


It's nekked backside


The gfx option in questshun


Name, Rank, and model number.

Thanks all

I guess what I'm asking is essentially, is there any way to differentiate the 4 VPRO cards from looking at the back? Does V8/12 still just have 2x BNCs and the one 13w3? Any version sporting DVI connectors, etc.?

Got a fresh look at the back of my Octane2s last night while rearranging my office a bit. I remembered a V6 looking a little different.
Bottom line is, I guess I'll have to take a mini LCD w/ a 13w3 adapter in there on Friday (the place is only open one day a week) and see if I can fire it up and get a look at hinv. Thing is, if it sits for a while with no interest, it'll get cheaper. Last SGIs I bought there was a whole pallet of Indigo2s (couple extremes and R10k SIs, with stands) and 5 Octanes+2 Octane2s, one Octane2 which now resides in my office was sporting a shoehorn with a DuoIO card and a QLogic FC card. Too bad they wipe the disks, the few that slipped through the cracks with intact filesystems, where pretty much worthless stock installs.

Anyway, I'll check it out Friday and go from there. Thanks for the input guys.

SALE UPDATE: ...I was hoping to land it for under $100...
This place is only open on Friday. So I go in the first Friday after Christmas break to <hopefully> snag up the Mac G5 quad for a beautiful tag of $550. I got the G5, but it came with no media, only a fresh install, but I'm told they'll talk to IT and try to land a OEM G5 Install disk or a [*legal*] backup copy anyway. Missed the next Friday, but came in the Friday after that. There sits the Octane w/ fixin's, in a shopping cart by the checkout area. I almost walked out without asking but I doubled back. "A guy bought it last week for $100 and brought it back in today, said it won't bring up anything..." I'm told. "you want it?" he added. To which I reply "how much?" "Ten bucks and it's yours, just don't bring the damn thing back here." SOLD! My wife had just asked me about which of our (my) machines would be good to learn 3D animation on, so I had her buy it.

Kinda pisses me off she got the same thing I paid $225 for a couple years ago and hers even has 2GB RAM in it. {although mine came with a shoehorn, neener neener neener... }
Turned out to be fine just had a jacked-up, half-network-dependent system on it. So, that brings us to... now go read my post in IRIX/Software about how I screwed it up already.

Megatron-UK wrote: Why can't I find SGI kit as cheap as that, here in the UK?

Invite a big commercial/military aircraft company to move into your neighborhood. Sometimes I see things at these places that REALLY make me wonder. Water tastes kinda funny around here, too.

Oh yeah, full specs
Octane2, blue skins w/ late sgi logo
400 MHz R12k, cherokee PS, xbow 1.4, V6, 2x 512MB + 4x 256MB RAM, 1x 18GB 10kRPM HD w/ IRIX 6.5.x, charcoal roundback kbd, 13w3/13w3 vid cable.
all fer 10 bucks!