Hi John, Building a Computer is easy and can be done by a 10 year old. Putting the right components together is the problem. I have built my business on supplying my Clients with the Hardware and Software that I have found by experience to be the most reliable. I was repairing a Computer for a long time Friend after replacing the faulty part I went on to clean out the Computer ,fans etc. Taking out the processor and memory and cleaning there contacts. "why do you do that" he said, "So that the Computer is more likely to not go faulty again" I said. "But your doing yourself out of repeat business which you can charge for" he said. It is this kind of attitude that I find appalling. Sometimes I make mistakes and supply something new which then turns out to be an unreliable product. I always make sure that the Client is recompensed. I would expect that if your Client has a long time relationship with his supplier, then the same would apply, so perhaps the best thing would be to take his advice. My experiences are not good at all with AMD. I used to supply AMD to one client in the Pentium One days and before and had little problem. When the Pentium III came out I stated to get repeated motherboard failures after about 18 months. When the Pentium IV came out I stopped supplying AMD to all my other Clients, but continued with this Client. Every Computer failed. So now I don't supply AMD at all. As I said before with Seagate versus Western Digital. The buck stops here so why push my luck when experience tells me otherwise.
If you want to talk about the hardware for my advice than ring me on 01673 842 979. Cheers Peter -----Original Message----- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of John Weller Sent: 17 November 2009 21:01 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: RE: Advice Thanks Peter, my client has a local supplier which he will use but he is expecting me to give him a spec to pass on to his supplier - I'm not getting my hands dirty building one <g>. I have no experience with large files with an SQL database like PostgreSQL. The main questions are: What is the minimum processor spec? From your reply it seems to be that a dual core Pentium will do nicely. Are there likely to be any problems if he goes down the AMD route? The other is how much RAM will he need? I don't want to suggest 8Gb if 4 will be sufficient. Regards John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 > -----Original Message----- > From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com > [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Peter Hart > Sent: 17 November 2009 20:08 > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > Subject: RE: Advice > > Hi John > > If you need some help building a PC, I can probably get one > of my suppliers to supply you direct, and point you in the > direction as far as components, which advice, you can take or > leave as you wish. > > On the subject of Windows 7, I have put some machines into a > few of my contract clients for testing purposes. One site > uses some very sophisticated stuff to provide parts diagrams, > part no's etc. Written in Dot Net it is very resource > hungry. Running Windows XP it needs a minimum of a dual core > Pentium processor with a minimum of 2 Gig Ram. > Under Windows 7 we have it running on a 4 year old Pentium IV > machine with 1 gig. It actually runs but very slowly with > 512mb. On the dual cores with 2 gig it flies, we have put > one on one of the branch counters with 3 screens attached and > they are extremely impressed. I could build an old machine > up with Windows 7 for you to experiment with. > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/a57fa4cf19531343a2ee11b57db8e3af100...@server.peterhartcomputers.local ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
