Marc Shapiro <marcns...@gmail.com> writes: > if it will stay up without locking. The new desktop will be using a > modern MB and DDR3 memory.
Given your budget constraints, you're looking at getting used hardware off ebay (or maybe craigslist, depending on where you live ...). You're also locking at getting at least two more 1TB hard disks so you can use RAID and make backups. So look out for something used that comes with at least one 1TB disk and a better graphics card. How many cores you get at what speed is somewhat irrelevant under budget constraints. You might be able to get away with smaller disks. We neither know how much data you have, nor what your requirements on processing power actually are. So you're looking at something like this: http://www.ebay.de/itm/HP-ProLiant-DL585-4x-AMD-Opteron-Dual-Core-875-2-2GHz-8GB-2x-72GB-Combo-5i-/300803185957?pt=DE_Computing_Server&hash=item4609445d25 It comes with 4 CPUs with 2 cores each at 2.2GHz, two fast 72GB each hard disks and 8GB of RAM for less than US$200. You get server class hardware with more than sufficient power for your needs which you can use for quite a while --- and this is only an example. Look into it, it's probably your best option if you can find such offers where you live. You'll get more power for your money than you could when buying stuff new. -- Debian testing iad96 brokenarch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87390xkn9g....@yun.yagibdah.de