I fully agree that the motherboard needs to be of the highest quality, but would propose that in fact a $5000 dual xeon (p4) motherboard setup is not the best way to spend your budget.
Mike On 2002.07.22 10:06 Andrew Jenkins wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mike Ingle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 8:53 PM > > To: Protel EDA Forum > > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Fastest possible Protel system, price is not a > > concern. > > > > > > I would guess that your money on Protel would go the furthest > > with a lower > > cost motherboard and LOTS of memory and plenty of display > > space. Cut those > > pans. dual display?? triple display ??matrox g550 is working > > nicely here > > on 2 diplays. > > The above is poor advise. In fact, it is the definition of poor advise. > No > offense intended, but the motherboard is just about the most important > component in a computer workstation, and definitely not the kind of > component that should be offed to the "golly, them don't matter much'n, > anyways" category in a technical venue such as this, by technical > professionals like the average PEDA subscriber. If a consumer is about to > plunk down eight thousand dollars or so (US) on a niche market program > like > Protel EDA, (or if the consumer already has...) and the consumer expects > to > be productive, maximize profits, and minimize headaches and downtime, > then > the consumer had better think long and hard before subscribing to the > WalMart Computing model, especially when it comes to critical components > like the motherboard. It is not unreasonable to expect that the user > should > consider a cost of around $2500-3000 for the entire system (monitor > included), if he/she specifies the components and takes the time to get > fair > price, perhaps 25% more if the task is delegated to a trust-worthy > "middle-man" operation. It should not be surprising either to accept that > a > decent motherboard is going to cost you somewhere around $200-300 (US) > (and > up) > > Http://www.Supermicro.com is one area that Brian might want to > investigate, > if Brain is interested in performance-level multi-processor motherboards. > Not a company poo-hooed by the gamer set, I know, because their designs > aren't all that friendly to over-clocking geeks, but then, as > professional > engineers, PCB designers, and the like, most of us don't really have time > to > be pissing around with such trivial and tertiary pursuits at work > anyway... > > 2p+, > > aj > > > > ************************************************************************ > * Tracking #: A64FAD8221983146AD3E7965686A68540350E602 > * > ************************************************************************ > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
