What apps are you going to be running on the systems? A stable motherboard
is very important I would say, not just one with a support chipset. Some
of the PCchips boards based on the via chipset run fine until you start
using large amounts of DMA.
Jason
Malay K Basu
<mbasu@mail.nih.gov> To: bioclusters@bioinformatics.org
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bioclusters-admin@bioinfo Subject: Re: [Bioclusters] recommendations on cheap hardware?
rmatics.org
10/08/2004 10:16 AM
Please respond to
bioclusters
Nicolas Jungers wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 23:58, Fernan Aguero wrote:
>
>
>>We're evaluating building AMD socket A
>>or Pentium socket 478 machines.
>
>
> I'd have a look at socket 754 (Athlon64) too. You can have a decent box
> for less than $400.
>
AMD is stopping manufaturing Athlon XP. In last month ther prices of
Athlon XP 2500 has jumped from $70 retail to $90 for Burton core. Now is
the right time to buy Athlon XP.
Malay
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