Dan Schlitt <[email protected]> writes: >It looks like I will be needing to replace my Dell machine running ubuntu. > >What is a good source for such a machine? A tower configuration is >prefered. Other detaied requirements are probably simple to get.
You left us to guess at your budget or affinity/aversion to a prebuilt versus DIY machine. If you want *nothing* to do with DIY, the prebuilt machine URLs, like zareason, are the way to go. You pay for what you want and you do not pay for a Windows license you won't use. However, if your budget demands that you consider a DIY project, let me point out that you can reuse a number of components on your existing machine. Most upgrades "because my box is dead or dying" don't imply you have a sudden need for upgraded components. You can probably readily reuse the following: Hard Drive Optical media drive (CD/DVD/BD) Graphics card You may be able to reuse the following, depending on how far adrift from the standard ATX form factor your Dell housing is: Case Power Supply This leaves the Motherboard, and it's most dependent components, the CPU and RAM. Likely you will need to replace all three of these minimum. Motherboards with 4 RAM slots and support for multiple Intel CPUs can cost around $150. Asus and Gibabyte use commonly found chipsets, they are what Hackintosh builders use. E.g., http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131837 An i5 would be a midpoint CPU, for $220. E.g., http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072 16GB of DDR3 1600 RAM is around $100. E.g., http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145347 So for $470, you can upgrade with headroom for the future if you can reuse the other components. And I deliberately did not choose the least expensive item in each of the three categories. If you can't reuse the Dell case and power supply, call it ~$600. That's still a substantial savings over a prebuilt. BTW, if a MicroCenter is near you, my experience is that they have the best deals on CPUs. e.g., a 3.5GHz i7 for $220: http://www.microcenter.com/product/376491/Core_i7_2700K_35GHz_LGA_1155_Boxed_Processor _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
