Not true at all. Every company I've worked for has a policy that they are not allowed to tell anything other than "yes he works/ed here." And even if they do ask, the employer is not able to tell salary, thats a breach of confidentially in most cases.

Shelby Robertson wrote:

Dalek Dave wrote: Where you lead, others follow! Smile To VB?

As long as it's not to VD, I'm good!

You could try not beating a dead horse and either replace your PC or upgrade it. Upgrading the RAM alone will help at least a little. But not knowing what specs you have I'm going to assume it's running on a Pentium II and by all means should be put in a wood chipper.

Oh if only it were a handy cliff out my window! But alas it's just an iced over drainage pond.

I just purchased a 21.5" monitor and I'm LOVING the x1080!! Even if it could go higher, I'm still good on the 1080! Why am I so good on the 1080? Because it replaced a 15" CRT running at 1024x768!! It's like I was living under a rock for years and now I've seen the light, even if the light is only at x1080!

Thanks for the insight. I"ll have to find some benchmarks.

The point is to build it on the cheap, meaning less than $100. I can get a used board, procs and memory and still have money left over. Not looking for high end, but just enough to run IIS, MS SQL 2008, Visual SVN, and hold lots and lots and lots of backups/images with minimal slowdowns. Though to do it right, I'd go get one of the new quad core Xeons or new AMD X4's. But who has that kind of coin these days for a backup machine. Though, with that kinda of spec, it would be my primary and my current (Core 2 duo E6400, 4gb ram(soon 8), dual raptors) machine would become my secondary. And I hear you on the leaky caps, what a nightmare.

That was helpful. I knew that Xeons used a bit more power but never really looke dat the AMD side during that whole era. I've just always had Intel the past 10 or so years.

Just wanted to get some opinions from some other people on a quandry of mine. I'm working on building up a "new" workstation/dev server and am wondering, Xeon based or Opteron based? I'm lookign at building it on the cheap. So I'm looking at P4 class Xeon and that same era of Opteron. It's got to be a dual CPU and have use for SCSI. I already have the case and drives but the processor/motherboard has really got me in a jam. Either way I can build up a $100 3ghz machine fairly quickly on eBay. Just thought I'd get some insite. Edit: On second thought, I'm looking at prices and find that I can build a near identical system to what I have now for the same price. Then I'd just need to find a SCSI card.

modified on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:31 PM