On 19 Sep 00, at 0:51, Indraneel Majumdar wrote:
> AMD Athlon 850 MHz
> AMD Compatible motherboard (ABIT or ASUS)
Maybe you can consider a dual PIII - 600MHz machine...Performances are
pretty good.
> ATX mini tower case 250W SMPS
> 256 MB RAM (no ECC but with warranty)
Get ECC RAM...and if you are going to use for 3D molecular modelling, then
there will be times when the 256 RAM will be utilised and even spillover to
swap.
> 9 GB ultra 160 SCSI HDD (Seagate)
> 20 GB IDE HDD (Seagate)
Get fast 7500rpm disks(atleast) for good swap results.
> 48x IDE CD drive (Sony)
> 3.5" FDD (Sony)
> Acclerated graphics card 32 MB RAM (which one is good, Voodoo? Matrox?)
Voodoo..
> soundcard (SB live with speakers ?) 10/100 network card (3Com ?) 19" Monitor
> is unavoidable). The machine shall probably be used for high end
> graphics/molecular modelling work. Any help including a better suggestion
> will be appreciated.
Do you really need sound/speakers on a purely number crunching workstation?
IMO, better put mroe money into RAM and faster HDDs..
HTH
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