WOW! That does give one reason to pau$e!
On Monday, November 22, 2004, at 01:27 PM, Keith Gerling wrote:
> Tom,
>
> I put this stuff in an existing box, so I guess you could call this an
> upgrade. These days video, audio, and networking functions are often
> (usually) available on the mainboard, thus no cards. Her Asus board
> has built in SATA RAID, and I've been running onboard ATA RAID for
> years on an old Abit board. Checking today's specials at Newegg.com,
> I see that you can buy a 16X DVD drive for $62 and a pretty decent
> case/power supply for $30. I see that Outpost.com is offering a 200
> MB Seagate drive for $70 I've got a whole box of SCSI cards that I
> hopefully will never need again, but I see Newegg has one for $17. So
> it wouldn't be a major hit to put an entire system together from
> scratch.
>
>
> So, If I were putting a system together today with a $1700 Apple
> budget, I'd do this:
>
> 2 200 GB Seagate drives
> RAID drives 140
> MSI dual cpu mainboard 205
> 2 10,000 RPM 40MB
> SATA drives (RAID) 210
> DVD 65
> 2 AMD 64 bit processors 300
> 2 additional video cards 80
> case/power supply 50
> 4 Gig RAM 700
>
> Wow! Ponder that for a moment. You have 4 gigs of RAM, and you put
> your Photoshop scratch disk on your RAID SATA drives which are
> spinning at 10,000. You still have 400 GB of RAID storage. All
> that, and DUAL 64 bit processors. AND, you have three
> monitors. The connoisseur side of me says "go Apple". but
> the financially poor computer side of me wins out!
>
> As for AMD vs. Intel? Well, that's entirely different war. AMD seems
> to be ahead of Intel with the ability tof offer fancy chipsets,
> 64bit, etc. I certainly wouldn't call them "second class". I prefer
> AMD over Intel because they always win out in the benchmark tests
> running Photoshop, which is my primary application. Also, for some
> reason, dual AMDs of similar speed run some applications (like video
> editting and 3d rendering) at FAR greater speeds than similar dual
> Pentiums.
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Tom Ferguson
http://www.ferguson-photo-design.com
Received on Mon Nov 22 16:01:24 2004
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