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I've had really good experiences with Amadi Systems as a Supermicro reseller. http://amadisystems.com/

I've stopped buying Dell/HP entirely now, because the price of Supermicro's stuff is so much better and you don't get into warranty arguments like you do with HP about running non-approved OSes.

I'll check them out, thanks.

Supermicro systems are certainly cheaper. Their IPMI is terrible, but I've done remote installs of OSes over it, it's mostly just laggy and sucky to use. We haven't had much trouble with the actual hardware (about a one percent failure rate out of the box, and very few failures after that).

Dells certainly have nicer management.

I have tried to configure a server on newegg, but the price with the lowest end AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon was too high, and if I go consumer-grade the mobo's quality goes down allot.