Hi all i need to buy 3 real "beasts" for our development guys for around the ?3000 mark, they dont need 3D graphics power, obviously, just processing power and a 1 year warranty.
Any suggestions?
Cheers
Any suggestions?
Cheers
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?3K for the three, or (God forbid) each?
If they don't need graphics power, what do they need that is beefy? Lots of disk? Lots of memory? Ninja CPUs?
It's very easy to get carried away with fancy Xeon workstations at Dell, which would be the obvious place to start. -
I read this as ?1000 each? If so then this will buy you 3 nice mid-range systems. And it will help if you are only looking for Graphic cards for 2D work as this means you can save money on the GPU which can cost a fortune.
As mid said what will you be using them for? What type of Applications, OS etc?
....are all some of the places to look for pre-built PC's witl warranty support.Comment
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They are just using them for .net development, but yeah ?1000 each.
Looking for a gig of RAM and 4.2 Ghz processors ideally
I'm thinking of getting them "made to measure" anyone know a decent place for this?Last edited by Jushin-Thunder-Liger; 14-01-2005, 11:34.Comment
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Get more than a Gb though - my designer PC struggles sometimes when debugging an issue with code and bollocks open at the same time...Comment
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Yeah I do .net development day in day out and if your working on a reasonable sized system with SQL Server, graphic apps, defect tracking, specs in word processors etc. and all the gubbins going then I'd whack in as much of the fastest RAM you can afford. 1Gig being the minimum. And a very fast hard drive to back it up.
I'd also make sure you get graphics cards with dual monitor support. Debugging is so much easier on a dual monitor system.Comment
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