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Hi everybody, |
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I am going to buy a new desktop PC and, because of some reasons I cannot |
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explain here in details, I have to choose among these configurations |
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(ordered by increasing price ;-) ): |
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1. FSC ESPRIMO P5625 E80+ uBTX: MCP78B Chipset AMD Phenom X3 8450 (2,1 |
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GHz) TripleCore(1,5MBSLC), 4*1024 MB DDR2 800, NVIDIA Geforce 9500 512MB |
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Dual DVI, SATA II 250 GB 7.2k, DVD RW SML. Price: 650 a.u. (arbitrary units) |
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2. Dell Precision Workstation T 3400: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E8200 |
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(2.66GHz, 4MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB)375W,4GB (4 x 1024MB) 800 MHz ECC |
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DDR2-SDRAM Memory, HD 250 GB SATA2 7.200,16x DVD+/-RW |
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Dual 256MB nVidia Quadro FX 570. Price: 950 a.u. |
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3. FSC Celsius W370: Core 2 Quad Q9400 4*2.66 GHz, 2 x 2GB DDR2 800, |
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NVIDIA Quadro FS 370 256 MB, 2xSATA II 500 GB 7.2k, DVD RW SML. Price: |
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900 a.u. |
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4. Dell Precision Workstation T-5400: Single Quad Core Xeon 5410 |
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(2,33GHz, 1333, 2x6MB), Intel 5000XChipset, 4GB (4 x 1024MB) Quad |
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Channel FBD 667Mhz Memory,250GB SATA Festplatte 7.2k, 16x DVD+/-RW, 512 |
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MB nVidia quadro FX1700(MRGA14L). Price: 1400 a.u. |
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About my needs: I am a C-developer, have to compile/run/debug programs |
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several tenths of time a day and analyse postprocessed, two-, three- and |
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four-dimensional (space+time) results on the same PC. All under Gentoo, |
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of course ;-) HD size is not a problem, there is a big NFS-Volume I can |
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mount ;-) |
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These are my questions: |
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- is the most expensive PC (4.) worth to be considered? Does its |
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speed-up justify its price? |
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- is there any compatibility problem with any of these configurations |
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and Gentoo? I do not want to run any other distribution! As far as I |
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know, nVidia and 2D acceleration issues should be solved by now... |
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- additional ideas/comments are welcome, but on these configurations |
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only ;-). |
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Thanks |
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Max |
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