On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 12:35 -0400, Kurt Guenther wrote: > > I'd like to get a server w/ raid that will double as a workstation in > my office. However, the last time I bought such a system, it was so > noisy that I had to send it into exile into the storage room.
Good luck, server and quite are an oxymoron. Even in quite mode, most servers are quite nosy. If it's quite it's likely not a server ;) RAID requires more than one drive, usually working a bit harder than a normal one would on it's own. Thus creating a bit more heat, and requiring a bit more cooling. Fans == noise :) > I'm leaning toward a gaming computer. With a second drive, I should > be able to setup Raid 1. Might go for like 1+0 or 0+1, RAID 10 or what ever it's called. RAID 1 is good for redundancy and reliability but no so much for performance. Which you might care about on a gaming machine ;) > I'm looking at a Quad core with 4GB. Push the ram, think ramdisk, for extreme speed and performance :) That said, I am not sure many if any games are multi-threaded. Most tend to be single threaded, so I am not sure if they will benefit from multiple cores. Depending on the speed of each core, might be better off with less cores if each one is faster. Something to keep in mind. Might want to do some research on the games themselves. > I hoping that gamers like to hear themselves think without all the > fan noise. Um headset? Likely want a mike to talk smack to other gammers your fragging, casting spells on, etc > However, I'm having problems locating such a comupter w/o Win 7 > preinstalled. Now I can't believe that's the case. Windows gaming computers are everywhere, with neon lights and all kinds of crap that is totally unnecessary. > Any recommendations? Again, quiet is the #1 requirement. If you want quite get a laptop. But really hitting up a Linux list for advice on a off the shelf windows gaming machine. Um.... I probably should not even dignify the post with a response. That said at least gain some points and build the sucker. Or do the good hardware a favor and put a decent OS on it. Stick to games that run on Linux :) I know it's so horrible to be on a platform that has limited games available/ported compared to others. All good pun intended! -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] List archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml
