Gateway 2000 NS-9000, Pentium Pro, 5 core server

Automata · May 24, 2009

I acquired this 113lb Gateway MONSTER today. This was a server made back in 1996-1997 and was a beast of a server, upgradable to 6 200mhz Pentium Pro's and able to take up to 4gb of RAM!! It also has a control panel on front (touch screen LCD!) where you can see temps, fan speeds, voltages and everything you could possibly imagine. Even CPU/HDD usage is included, no OS or software is needed!!

This server sold for over $13,000 USD when released. The amount of work and thought they put into it is extremely obvious, I hope to keep this thing for a long time.

Model: Gateway NS-9000
CPU: 5x 200mhz Pentium Pro - Socket 8 (upgradable to 6, just need the processor/VRM)
Mem: 1280mb assorted DIMM
Drives: 1.5" thick IBM unknown size (need to get a OS up)
OS: Came with Fedora Core 2!
PSU: 3 + 1 redundant, 350w each; 1050w for the system and one hot spare

Enough talking, these pictures make me drool....

Your eyes do not deceive you. Those are three riser cards, two card for 3x CPUs and 1 for a ton of memory!

imposter · May 24, 2009

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeettttttttttttt

what do you plan to do with it?

Automata · May 24, 2009

I have absolutely no idea. Maybe if I could stop staring at it....

imposter · May 24, 2009

its rude to stare =P

Automata · May 24, 2009

But....but....it likes it

.

Maxvla · May 24, 2009

Now that is some badassery!

Adragontattoo · May 24, 2009

absolute grins and chuckles, throw a SATA PCI card into it and run a few 1tb drives.

Automata · May 24, 2009

If I took the SCSI backplane off, you could just clip in any drive you want. I have a file server already along with a Dell Poweredge that is off at the moment.

I really need to find a use for these things >.<

PhysX · May 24, 2009

sweet case

Aynjell · May 24, 2009

You're buying too many servers, thideras, whatchoo gonna do with 'em anyway?

Dapman02 · May 24, 2009

Man, seeing that Gateway 2000 symbol brings me back
I remember when we got our first computer. Gateway 2000, 166 mhz Pentium I, 1.6Gb hard drive (raided I think), I miss that thing

Evilsizer · May 25, 2009

OMG DUDE! I SO WANT THAT! I'D HIT IT, WITH ROSIE!!

wow so manythings you could do with that... really though you should put bonic on it and see how the rig does... now you need that last cpu and VRM, ppro's are cheap on the bay!!

Automata · May 25, 2009

I got the VRM for it, just need the CPU

Adragontattoo · May 25, 2009

Me I would have already taken that thing down to bare metal, been looking for the controller for the touch screen and seeing about retrofitting in a high end system/WCing/Server or something..

and then regretted having dismantled it

Automata · May 25, 2009

I'll only tear it apart when parts are too expensive to justify the cost of running the server. It has got 4 psu's, so those shouldn't fail anytime soon...

hokiealumnus · May 26, 2009

That is one heck of an overkill beast you have there. I can believe it cost $13k in its heyday. Can't believe it still operates properly. If you don't mind me asking, how much did it cost you? Would be interesting to see how much $13k worth of computer hardware depreciates in 12 years.

Automata · May 26, 2009

Cost me absolutely nothing. All I had to do was pick it up.

Maxvla · May 26, 2009

Looks like it depreciates into nothing

Audioaficionado · May 26, 2009

I still have my ol' Micron Millenia Pro2 Pentium Pro 200 dual socket workstation and it still boots and works. It was built before all that bad cap nonsense a few years later.

Old Thrashbarg · May 26, 2009

Wow, EDO DIMMS... that's something you don't see too often.

So now you just need, like, six Voodoo2's.

I would definitely look into a different hard drive setup for it, though, if you plan to play with it much. A single SATA drive would be faster, cooler and much quieter than all those old Ultra/20 SCSI drives, and would probably knock quite a bit off the power consumption as well.

(I also advise that you go for the route of blissful ignorance and don't plug it into a Kill-a-watt, ever... you'll probably poo yourself if you see how much juice it pulls.

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