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