I'm giving my brother's family a new computer for christmas.
He'll buy it from a local (to him) 'white box' pc store and I'll
pay for it. I am a little concerned about performance because
the pc will probably be running GIMPS and I'd like to get my
money's worth. It's easy to request a P4 in the 2.0-2.5 range
and 256M-512M of memory but I've read of the bottleneck caused
by slow memory and the bus between memory and cpu and I don't
know what to specify or how to evaluate components in this area
or measure performance after the pc is built.
Any comments or suggestions?
I want them to have a fast machine but not on the bleeding
(expensive) edge.
Other than GIMPS I'm sure my nephew will be the heaviest load
when he plays games on the new machine.
I think I should also request the video card has all of it's own
memory, right? I don't want the video to share the main memory
for performance reasons, right?
Cheers... Russ
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