>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Ingle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 8:53 PM
> > To: Protel EDA Forum
> > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Fastest possible Protel system, price is not a
> > concern.
> >
> >
> > I would guess that your money on Protel would go the furthest
> > with a lower
> > cost motherboard and LOTS of memory and plenty of display
> > space. Cut those
> > pans. dual display?? triple display ??matrox g550 is working
> > nicely here
> > on 2 diplays.
>
> The above is poor advise. In fact, it is the definition of poor advise. No
> offense intended, but the motherboard is just about the most important
> component in a computer workstation, and definitely not the kind of
> component that should be offed to the "golly, them don't matter much'n,
> anyways" category in a technical venue such as this, by technical
> professionals like the average PEDA subscriber. If a consumer is about to
> plunk down eight thousand dollars or so (US) on a niche market program like
> Protel EDA, (or if the consumer already has...) and the consumer expects to
> be productive, maximize profits, and minimize headaches and downtime, then
> the consumer had better think long and hard before subscribing to the
> WalMart Computing model, especially when it comes to critical components
> like the motherboard. It is not unreasonable to expect that the user should
> consider a cost of around $2500-3000 for the entire system (monitor
> included), if he/she specifies the components and takes the time to get fair
> price, perhaps 25% more if the task is delegated to a trust-worthy
> "middle-man" operation. It should not be surprising either to accept that a
> decent motherboard is going to cost you somewhere around $200-300 (US) (and
> up)
>
> Http://www.Supermicro.com is one area that Brian might want to investigate,
> if Brain is interested in performance-level multi-processor motherboards.
> Not a company poo-hooed by the gamer set, I know, because their designs
> aren't all that friendly to over-clocking geeks, but then, as professional
> engineers, PCB designers, and the like, most of us don't really have time to
> be pissing around with such trivial and tertiary pursuits at work anyway...
>
> 2p+,
>
> aj
Finally,
The first post here that makes some real sense. I have a serious contract to work
on. Tony was right ->(You must have quoted
someone a flat rate on a big job??? :))< I did. I do not wish to be late on the job,
or, cut corners to save time. Repeat
business here
would be a big + to my bank account. :)
This is not the first time I had a contract to re-do an existing PCBs because of a
sloppy, auto-routed design that was plagued
with manufacturing & odd functional problems which differed from board to board.
Impressed with my existing manual layout work, I've been contracted to manual
re-route a huge board. Personally, this is not my
favorite
type of work, but, the $$$ I'll be making is well worth a professional system which
should glide through all of the aspects of the
PCB design.
It's sad however, If Protel were to fix the auto-pan, I mean, really do it
properly, I might be tempted to work with my existing
Dual 1GHz system, but, system performance affects many other things like, re-building
polygons, DRC, push & shove routing,
auto-backups, and ect...
____________
Brian Guralnick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Voice (514) 624-4003
Fax (514) 624-3631
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