recommendation for dev system
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Like others have posted, gobs of memory will speed up your system more then anything else these days, so don't skimp. Personally, I'm a little paranoid about drive failures so I try to do raid 1 whenever I can. SATA is just much nicer to work with so do that if you can.
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I'll have a shop assemble the box, so all I care about is performance :)
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What would you recommend now for a midrange development system? I'm currently looking at a P4 system for €440 (no peripherals). Processor - P4 worth it? What is an "AMD Sempron"?? RAM - 512MB seems standard now. Would you recommend 1G? (have it at work, is a charm of course) HDD - do two drives still improve performance notably? is SATA worth the additional price?
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boost your code || Fold With Us! || sighist | doxygenI'm actually one stick of memory away from finishing my second eBay PC. Here's what I was able to put together buying parts only from eBay: 3.0 p4 w/HT prescott core w/heatsink/fan - $163 - New 200GB Sata HD - $90 - New GeForce FX 5700 Ultra 128mb - $130 Generic case w/500w Power Supply - $50 - New ECS 865pe-a MB/built in sound/network/6usb/800Mhz FSB - $73 - New Sub Total - $506 I plan on picking up 2 512mb sticks of pc3200 next week for about $130 Grand Total - $636USD As for the two drive idea, IMO, that's the way to go. In my first eBay PC (celron 555mhz/256ram) I bought a 40gb drive to use for my data, and used an UBER old 6gb drive I had laying around for my OS, SQL, IIS. Having 2 needles doing the work for you is where you see the benefit. Partitioning one physical drive does you no good since you still only have one needle on the disk accessing data. That, and i was able to go from win adv server 2k to a fresh install of 2k3 w/o loosing any data at all. Just make sure to redirect your My documents folder to your second drive :-D Levi Rosol http://www.TwoRiversMarketing.com