On 17:34 Tue 29 Mar , daniel wrote: > I buy a new computer every 5 years or so. My current machine is an Athlon800 > and it continues to perform well because I was careful about my purchasing > back in 2000 and I'd like to repeat that this time around. > > To that end, I'm looking for suggestions from the lot of you with regard to > what kind of hardware I can/should get for my new shiny desktop machine.
Some good suggestions in this thread. You'll find a nicely organized set of suggestions for systems of various price levels at: http://hardwareguys.com/picks/picks.html I've built based on their suggestions, with no prior experience at it, and had great success. The only thing they have missed, IMHO, are Western Digital's SATA drives. I have two of their 10,000 rpm Raptors running on a RAID0, my machine screams. These are Western Digital's effort to break into the commercial, i.e., scsi, market, and are, by all reports, rugged and reliable. The only real problems with scsi are that they tend to be LOUD, and they are priced for the commercial market, i.e., expensive. Bill Roberts
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