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Well, before we begin, I want ideas on two possible choices, a powerful machine, and a less powerful and upgradable machine, I will call them machine A and machine B.
1) What will you do with the computer ?
It will do a lot of data crunching, think of a lot of pattern and regular expression matching, as well as running a number of virtual machines at the same time, archive packing and unpacking, and might be a remote host too, no gaming, but I might try some light GPGPU work, so a low end dedicated GPU would be my choice, it will also be a development machine.
2) What is your budget ?
A : $800.
B : $1000-$1200.
3) Where do you live ?
Iran, don't worry of the brands, I will probably find whatever you throw at me with probably a +%5~%10 surplus.
4) What parts do you want with this build ?
Don't worry about the keyboard and mouse, put aside $30 for some good one's.
5) Reusing ? No
6) Highly unlikely, I am going to use it as a work machine, won't take risks on lowering the life of the machine, and noise.
7) What size monitor do you have or plan to have?
I want a 17" monitor, a high resolution is not required, can probably do with even a 1280x1024 one.
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
Would need Firewire and prefer having eSata (Will not have a lot of use for the eSATA though, so it is not a primary concern)
My work would be increasing progressively, so I can get a less powerful PC first and then use the extra money for getting something better later.
What I have thought of is something among these lines :
Machine A : Getting a good dual Core AMD processor then upgrading to a quad-core once a decent AMD Quad Core gets released after some months ?
Machine B : Getting a Quad Core Core 2 Duo machine, or a Core i7 build friendly with my budget.
I can probably handle the rest if you recommend me a good motherboard that can work 24/7, if it is AMD, I would want it to support 45nm processors.
Something like an AMD 4830 would be more than enough for trying the GPGPU work.
I probably would need a lot of ram, I am thinking of getting 4GB at least.
How much will I be saving on price if I go with a DDRII memory ? (AMD build)
Thank you all for the help
1) What will you do with the computer ?
It will do a lot of data crunching, think of a lot of pattern and regular expression matching, as well as running a number of virtual machines at the same time, archive packing and unpacking, and might be a remote host too, no gaming, but I might try some light GPGPU work, so a low end dedicated GPU would be my choice, it will also be a development machine.
2) What is your budget ?
A : $800.
B : $1000-$1200.
3) Where do you live ?
Iran, don't worry of the brands, I will probably find whatever you throw at me with probably a +%5~%10 surplus.
4) What parts do you want with this build ?
Don't worry about the keyboard and mouse, put aside $30 for some good one's.
5) Reusing ? No
6) Highly unlikely, I am going to use it as a work machine, won't take risks on lowering the life of the machine, and noise.
7) What size monitor do you have or plan to have?
I want a 17" monitor, a high resolution is not required, can probably do with even a 1280x1024 one.
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
Would need Firewire and prefer having eSata (Will not have a lot of use for the eSATA though, so it is not a primary concern)
My work would be increasing progressively, so I can get a less powerful PC first and then use the extra money for getting something better later.
What I have thought of is something among these lines :
Machine A : Getting a good dual Core AMD processor then upgrading to a quad-core once a decent AMD Quad Core gets released after some months ?
Machine B : Getting a Quad Core Core 2 Duo machine, or a Core i7 build friendly with my budget.
I can probably handle the rest if you recommend me a good motherboard that can work 24/7, if it is AMD, I would want it to support 45nm processors.
Something like an AMD 4830 would be more than enough for trying the GPGPU work.
I probably would need a lot of ram, I am thinking of getting 4GB at least.
How much will I be saving on price if I go with a DDRII memory ? (AMD build)
Thank you all for the help
