Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> writes: > On 2009-08-23 11:01, Francesco Pietra wrote: >> Hi: My old K7S5A (SiS735 chipset) Athlon i386 lenny desktop has died >> and I am wondering how to set up a new one for the same service >> (running 32bit graphic scientific programs, besides office use, and >> establishing scp connection with my amd64 computing machines). >> Absolutely no need of multicore, rather, a single fast processor >> would be of use for scientific purposes as parallelized codes are >> rare stuff. I thought to by a second hand single-processor >> motherboard but it might result as a bad jump into the past. Also, I >> have a couple of unused 150GB Raptor WD HDs that could only be used >> if nthe motherboard has SATA connections (better two, so as to set >> up a RAID1). >> Any suggestion on which motherboard (or motherboard type if you >> prefer to be uncommittal about brand) would be greatly appreciated. > > If I wanted the fastest-available single-core CPU, I'd look for these > on Ebay: Pentium D 900 at 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 6X1 at 3.8 GHz
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