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8 Cores on a Budget- Building a Better Workstation
September 16, 2008 (8:00:00 AM) - 2 months ago
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I admit with great indignity that I had been something of a sleeper cell in the world of computer hardware for the past few years. There was a time, quite recently, when I was very much “up” on things. I was the neighborhood go-to-guy for advice on what to buy and where to buy it from. But by the time 2008 rolled by, months ago, not so much. Given, it’s a bit of a relief not to be the pro bono IT-public-defender I once was, but almost five years had passed since my last desktop purchase–and seven since my last notebook–and it felt like it was about time that I got myself some Cliff notes to cram for the final.
8 Cores on a Budget- Building a Better Workstation
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 10.67.0.168] on September 16, 2008 05:57 PMMy "budget" 8 core system came from Dell and cost about $800 to start with (2x quad core 1.6 GHz Xeons - they were offering a free second quad-core CPU promotion, 1 Gig RAM, 250 Gig HD, DVD-ROM drive), to which I added two 1 TB HDs ($275) and upped the RAM to 8 Gigs for ($375), that puts me well under $1,500 - that is a budget system, but hardly noteworthy, I simply ordered a system from Dell, then added common upgrades.
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