SGI Octane 2 Workstation

I bought this Octane 2 workstation long after they had been end-of-lined by Silicon Graphics, in fact it was well into the stage that they were only producing Intel/x86 systems; the heyday of their high-end MIPS workstations such as the Octane and Indigo being long forgotten.

The system was bought with the following specification:

• Single R12000 400MHz CPU
• 2GB RAM
• 18GB SCSI HDD
• Odyssey VPro V6 graphics option (32MB RAM, full 3D acceleration)

Around 2008 I picked up a couple of upgrade parts for the Octane:

• Dual R12000 400MHz CPU module
• 73GB SCSI HDD
• Odyssey VPro V8 graphics option (128MB RAM, full 3D acceleration)