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InorganicMatter

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My dad needs a box for software development. Visual Basic, .NET, etc. He wants it to be Intel Dual-Core on a genuine Intel platform. No games. Raw data throughput is everything (I already tried to sell him AMD, no dice). Budget is $1500 tops. I need the entire box, including optical drives and hard drives. No peripherals.
 
sac_tagg said:
including optical drives and hard drives.
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Maxtor DiamondMax10/MaxLineIII (16MB buffer versions) and NEC 3540A. If he wants a boost in app loading performance, get a 73GB Raptor, but that will strain the budget.
 
One thing to make sure of with software development is to budget for dual monitors. They make dealing with code SOOOO much easier.
 
sac_tagg said:
My dad needs a box for software development. Visual Basic, .NET, etc. He wants it to be Intel Dual-Core on a genuine Intel platform. No games. Raw data throughput is everything (I already tried to sell him AMD, no dice).
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That doesn't make too much sense. "Raw data throughput" can mean much but for most definitions an AMD64 system with its integrated memory controller, not to mention an opteron system with its multiple hyptertransport links and the much better L1 caches will just blast the Intel options.

Why he needs "raw data throughput" for visual basic is bejond me.

While Intel keeps up very good compilation speed for C and C++ with light or moderate templating, scripting languages and virtual machines based languages are usually much faster than AMDs.
 
Martin Cracauer said:
That doesn't make too much sense. "Raw data throughput" can mean much but for most definitions an AMD64 system with its integrated memory controller, not to mention an opteron system with its multiple hyptertransport links and the much better L1 caches will just blast the Intel options.

Why he needs "raw data throughput" for visual basic is bejond me.

While Intel keeps up very good compilation speed for C and C++ with light or moderate templating, scripting languages and virtual machines based languages are usually much faster than AMDs.
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Maybe you missed the part about me already trying to tell him this.
 
I didn't miss that part.

But you see you gave far too few details about his preferences. The single detail you gave, and that incomplete, points directly to an option that he already ruled out.

What can we do?
 
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