[sbaiddn]

Depends why you want the machine. I doubt you want to re-live 90s TV editing, so all that stuff is out.

Full machines with graphics are expensive. Luckily I got my fuel for $200 back in '09. I scored a V12 from a broken machine at the time cheap.

Parts are generally cheap. At least for the Fuel, the community now knows which DELL or some other server parts are equivalent to the SGI branded ones (SATA or Gigabit cards) and a lot of stuff is useless (why care for a SCSI card?). RAM is cheap if you see this as largely a vanity thing.

Finally, if you're good at debugging X (Im not), an origin 300 is a great machine. I bought one but I have the fuel for X client (works great). If I understand the problem, around 2007-2008 something changed in X11 (Xorg??) that broke compatibility with the SGI for 3D graphics.

[hulitu]

As far as i remember SGI 3D stuff was based on PEX and xorg decided to drop this extension around that time.

[sbaiddn]

That's awesome! Thanks.