I tend to agree with most of what you said except for AMD. I have a Athlon900 sytem here and it seems to "blow away the doors" of a PIII-700 that is also here for general purpose use. Yes I know it's faster, but it seems WAY faster.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Drew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 11:25 AM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Fastest possible Protel system, price is not a > concern. > > > > Brian, > > This is a great topic, especially when money is not a concern. I > have great > trust with the opinions of this group, but make sure that you spend a good > amount of time researching the stats of what you are looking at and the > advice you receive. > > Tom's Hardware Guide www.tomshardware.com is an excellent > starting resource > for everything, other than entering key words in a search engine. > The chipset and motherboard issue have too many variables to > correctly guess > which one is the best and is largely determined by your CPU choice(s). > >From my personal experience, the pros of AMD are mostly seen on game > oriented platforms, when money is no object. > I believe the industry made a mistake with RDRAM. Go with the fastest DDR > available. DDR400, I think. > With IDE RAID and the RPM's higher end IDE HD's are now at, SCSI > may be just > an added complication to the system. I would re-think a SCSI decision if > that decision is based on speed and/or RAID. > I bought my power supply from PC Power and Cooling > www.pcpowerandcooling.com > Never had any problems even when the power flickered, reset the cable box > and turned off the TV. I did not have a UPS at home and I know that was > just plain stupid, but my monitor never even flickered and I kept on > working. I have had one person tell me afterwards that PC Power > and Cooling > is just a reseller. I have not verified this. > > I am excited for you... > I got my first big board near the end of last year. An 18-layer > OC192 card > with the major components being 22 BGA's from 676 pins to 272 > pins, 12 QFP's > from 100 to 32 pins, and a large multiple power supply section. > It had diff > pairs, matched lengths, clock lines and controlled impedances. The entire > board was hand routed on my then new machine here at home, and a 420 > Precision Dell that I was upgraded to at my work. The beautiful part was > the majority of the board was in four mostly repeatable sections. > This 24" > x 8" card is still the most enjoyable project I have encountered to date. > > My employer and I have had mostly good experiences with Dell support. The > bad experiences were only when we tried to use e-mail correspondence to > solve an issue. > > Good luck to you. > > Cheers! > Drew > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Guralnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 3:35 PM > Subject: [PEDA] Fastest possible Protel system, price is not a concern. > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I just got my first mega-huge contract for PCB design with > Protel. We > are talking 8 x 1020 FBGAs + 4 x 1024 bit DDR sdram > > sections + a whole lot of other stuff. > > > > Price of system is not a concern. I have no problem in choosing OS, > video card, monitors, HDs... It's the choice of > > motherboard & memory bus speed. > > > > My target system is Dual P4, 2 GByte ram, Seagate Cheetah SCSI3 > drives. > > > > What is the current top RDR memory technology? > > What is the current top motherboard chipset, & motherboard > brand for such > a system? > > What is the best choice for a PC power supply? (For such a system, the > run of the mil 350 watt just isn't good enough, especially > > when you consider the price of the whole thin, I'd rather got with the > Cadillac of power supplies.) > > > > Thanks, > > ____________ > > Brian Guralnick > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Voice (514) 624-4003 > > Fax (514) 624-3631 > > > > > > > > ************************************************************************ > > * Tracking #: EF8406847C44974E9EEC81ACB3A2B87673DA95A3 > > * > > ************************************************************************ > > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
