Hi,
Thanks for the advices. I have already sent the specs and the person who
wants to buy has sent it to the purchase committee. I've included some
options in case my config is not possible to get. However we will soon be
buying some more of the same stuff so kindly continue your suggestions.
You may mail direct to me to save bandwidth.
Thanks,
Indraneel
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Sthitaprajna wrote:
> 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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