On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:33:27 +0100 iprmaster <iprmas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ;-). Can you get Dell to spec a RHEL Precision workstation? Some of the Precisions do have RHEL variants, which pretty much guarantees Linux compatability.
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