Yes i'll start with 2gb. Otherwise this is a personal budget rig so i want to buy the minimum i need.
i think i won't go for penryn. The locally available motherboards with integrated video on nvidia nforce don't support it. I don't want to buy a separate video card, but i don't want intel integrated video either. besides the intel nehalem platform coming out next year will be a big change. so i'll stick to the allendale processors. So will it be a cheap 3k e2xxx, a 7k e6xxx, or a 9k xeon x3120. 11k q6600 is outside the budget. On 3/5/08, Cocoy Dayao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 5, 2008, at 12:42 AM, Miguel Paraz wrote: > > > Thanks for the tips. I think I'll go for the dual-core Penryn > > processors, the E8xxx's. I don't think I'll be needing quad-core, I'd > > probably be running only one or two VM's at a time. > > imho, ram is more important than pure processor muscle. get ram, lots > and lots of ram. as much as you can especially if you're playing with > multiple VMs at a time. No less than 2gb, 4gb is good, the more the > merrier. > > ------------------ > Cocoy > "People who are really serious about software should make their own > hardware." --Alan Kay > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
