On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 07:20:15AM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: > If money is a little bit of a concern ....... > what is the best type of hardware to use?
Even if many experts regard the PC-architecture as inferior compared to some others you probably still get the most value for little money. > For example.... > which make of CPU? > Which Motherboard? Of course it depends on your needs. If you want to buy a good and cheap CPU buy AMD instead of Intel. I am very satisfied with my Thunderbird. > Does scsi make a differnce? Depends on your needs. Modern IDE-disks got pretty fast but especially in servers SCSI offers some advantages. But of course it is much more expensive. > Is 3com the best for nics? IMHO no. My two really cheap Realtek 8139 work great and I have read benchmarks where those cheap ones were faster than some 3Coms. Phil
