On Nov 9, 2007 5:47 PM, Stewart C. Strait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking for a new (or possibly used) desktop machine, probably
> toward the low end of the price spectrum. Does anyone have
> suggestions for hardware or San Diego area retailers? Links or Google
> search ideas are also welcome.
>
> Chips and Memory is advertising machines with Asus M2N-MX SE
> motherboards. Are these desirable or troublesome?
>
> I'll probably be installing Ubuntu or Debian. MS Windows will not be
> present.
>
> It's important for the machine to run fairly quietly in room
> temperatures up to about 90 degrees F (32 degrees C). Highly
> CPU-intensive jobs will be run occasionally, but small speed
> improvements are not worth significant money to me. These jobs
> usually access memory in unpredictable ways, so caching is less
> effective than usual. The existing machine, with a 1.4 GHz Athlon
> processor, is adequate, but I presume much greater speed is available
> cheaply.
>
Do you do anything that would benefit from a 64-bit word? I have just
in the past few days discovered that my new laptop with 2GHz AMD
64-bit Turion is almost twice the speed on bit-map intensive programs
as the desktop with 2.8GHz Pentium 4. (32-bit).
carl
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