If you were me, what would you get? Exactly please. So I do not make newbie mistakes and look dumb. :)
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If you were me, what would you get? Exactly please. So I do not make newbie mistakes and look dumb. :)
Well, I think you can get a Sun Blade for about a grand. Get like 4 and put some distributed computing softwear on em.Quote:
As long as its less than 5 G.
Probably get a Low end SGI for that price.
Guess it depends on what OS you wanna run. If I had an extra 5G's sitting around, I wouldn't be buying a WinTel machine. I would go for a Sun/Solaris, SGI/Irix, HP/HpUX type box.
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I was looking to buy a gateway premade
fyi...gateway's been having some big money problems....something to consider if service and support are an issue...
or...
run *.nix on a pIII with 256m ram....which you can probably pick up used for about 500 bucks...take the rest of the money and spend a week drunk and full on the beach somewhere... :D
I'm in the process of building a performance system at the moment (mainly for fast games play, but also for general use & internet stuff).
I am probably (nothing's definite yet, I'm still collecting the money together) going to get:
AMD Athlon XP 1.8GHz or above
512MB RAM (initially, possibly expand to 1GB later)
32/64MB graphics card (possibly an ATI Radeon, or failing that a Creative GeForce3)
5.1 Sound card
10/100 Net Card
56k Modem (v90, internal, hardware modem, not a Winmodem)
40GB hard drive
DVD-ROM drive (LG or Creative)
CD Rom drive (Creative)
CD-RW drive (LG or Creative)
MS IntelliMouse Optical
Keyboard (Probably a Compaq keyboard, they're so quiet!!!)
I'll install Windows 98 onto it (has to be 98 for best games play compatibility)
I agree with Korp Itll be better to build one yourself and you will find it alot cheaper too. I have heard to stay away from pentiums and sdram guess there not as good as they are made out to be. But if you are going for a company computer check out dell I think they are best in getting your $$$ worth in my opinion. Good luck
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the sound card make... Creative.
I'm not going to try to influence you as to brands etc, but Creative stuff is built to last.
I've had a computer for 7 years with a Creative CD-ROM, SB16 sound card, and a creative graphics card. All 3 still work in perfect condition, as the day they were bought, whereas a CD-ROM in a newer machine (it was an unnamed device, didn't appear to be made by anyone, it was just a CD drive, didn't have a manufacturer name at all!) died within 6 months of purchase...
I would recommend that you build it your self. Don't let all those circuit boards and wire intimidate you. Once you start working with hardware you realize that it’s a piece of cake compared to programming.
Yo Ghost_25inf there is nothing wrong with sdram, it works better thanany other type of ram its just that sometimes the improved performance does not justify the cost.
The3ntropy you should go for ddrram(double data rate) cause it has twice the bandwidth of any other type of ram and seeing as how money is no problem.
Also for programming the most important piece of equipment is the monitor (cause you're going to spend so much time looking at it). You said you are going to use your old monitor but unless it is a very good one I'd advise you to invest in a flatscreen crt monitor, if you have money burn that is. I got my hands on one of these a few weeks ago and I still can't believe the improvement.
P.s. I'm just after building a kick ass machine for 3500 euro. I've got the entire specs written down somewhere and I'll post them when I dig them up.
I agree with building it yourself. I stay away from pre-built machines like the plague. It is a piece of cake compared to programming with ASM. :D
It looks like most of the other people have given you some good hardware recommendations. But you can check out http://www.tomshardware.com and http://www.extremetech.com to get stats on indivdual pieces. If you don't mind mail-order go to http://www.pricewatch.com to get the best prices. Perhaps you have quite a bit of money to spend, but don't spend it needlessly on components that you can get cheaper :)
you should be writing programs on a mach thats similer to the machines your programs will be running on....no?