My new system

[markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org]

> Mark,
> I haven't been following. What did you get for MB/CPU/RAM? It may be
> upgrade time for me.
>

http://www.mwave.com

Barebones, AMD Athlon 64X2, 6000 dual core, 4G RAM.



> Thanks,
> G
>
> On 03/06/07, markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org <markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> If you've been following my trials of getting a new machine, here's an
>> update:
>>
>> The machine arrived a few days ago:
>>
>> It only has one IDE port, but 6 SATA sockets. That's OK, I had 3 250G
>> drives in a RAID that I was never too thrilled with. I split up the RAID
>> and used those disks elsewhere and bought a WD SATA 500G disk for $120
>> at
>> Microcenter.
>>
>> I had to buy a new SATA DVD drive (Microcenter $49)
>>
>> No APG ports anymore, had to buy a PCI-X video card. $99
>>
>> That's it for spending.
>>
>> OK, now how does it work?
>>
>> Well, its fast. REALLY fast. The dual-core scales multiple processes as
>> well as threads (one of my concerns), but I have a nagging feeling it
>> does
>> not scale as well as a true SMP machine.
>>
>> I installed Kubuntu Feisty 7.03, and all is well. The next step is to
>> install a 64bit distro on a partition.
>>
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