An important factor in the reliability and security of our systems is the choice of hardware. With other providers price considerations sometimes take precedence, meaning they rely on products that may be unsuitable for servers. Our servers however, are only fitted with high-quality and expensive components.

So that our hardware always meets these high quality standards we rely solely for example, on RAM manufactured by Samsung or Kingston. Samsung and Kingston are known for their high-quality and error-free performance. And we certainly won't purchase from another manufacturer to obtain a lower price and risk compromising security.

We take particular care to ensure we meet our customers' individual requirements. Custom-made solutions are not suitable for everyone. Such a complex range of server applications often requires a wide variety of configurations and priorities in terms of hardware. For this reason we almost always assemble our customers' servers ourselves. This allows us to verify that all components work perfectly together – from the case right up to the CD-ROM drive – and that the system is always perfectly matched to our customers' needs.

Should it occasionally become necessary to replace a component in the data center on the customer's request or in the case of very rare hardware problems, that's no problem at all. Giga-International.com has every conceivable part twofold and threefold in stock at its own spare parts warehouse as well as directly on site at the data center, which means that downtimes are kept to an absolute minimum for our customers.

In the photo you can see the socket 771 Asus motherboard with an Intel Chipset. At top left are the RAM slots with four 1024 MB-DDR2 667 DIMMs from brand-name manufacturer Kingston. The 4 GB of RAM has ECC (error correction code) which further distinguishes it from conventional DDR memory and it works in dual channel mode, of course. Next to it on the right, it is possible to install one or two Intel Xeon processors – in this case two Intel Xeon 5050 dual core processors with 3.0 GHz each. Xeon processors were designed for use in servers and have far superior performance than the conventional Pentium processors in this application (in case you're wondering why one of the fans is installed upside down it's so that the electric cable to the fan can be connected to the motherboard via the shortest possible distance). The hard disk slide-in bays are occupied by two 250 GB S-ATA HDDs. The hard disks are from brand-name manufacturer Samsung. The system case has two additional fans from Enermax. Actually this is an extra when you consider that the data center is air-conditioned. A major improvement in comparison to ealier models is the modular cable management of the Seasonic power supply: unneccessary cables can be removed improving airflow and thereby reducing the temperature.
You will probably already have noticed: Other than normal mainboards, socket 771 mainboards require an additional 4PIN connector (which is located between the two other connectors with this mainboard).

This computer was photographed during assembly (the S-ATA cables and the power cable for the front fan are yet missing).