I decided to go for 64bit.

[Andrew Hammond]

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Frank Peng wrote:
| Thank you guys enlighten me a lot. Now I decided to go
| for 64bit:
|
| Tyan 940 motherboard AGP8X
| 3.0 GHz Opteron

Wow! Last I checked, the fastest Opterons were the 150/250/850 chips.
And they're clocked at 2.4GHz. ;)

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8796_9240,00.html

| 4GB memory
| ATI X2-256T video card
| 80GB SATA hard drive

Dunno what your budget is, but if disk performance matters, you could go
for a pair of WD 10kRPM Raptor disks and do RAID0 across them. I think
they're available in 73GB so you'd have 146GB of pretty quick storage
that way.

| The fancy PCI-X ports, not PCI-Express, is useless for
| now. It is said AMD will make PCI-Express main board
| at 2005...


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