Recommendation on Barebone kit reseller

[Kevin Morris]

Hi Len,
I would like to get your take on what a good system is, as I am looking to build one sometime early next year.
Cheers
Kevin 

> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:39:52 -0500
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Recommendation on Barebone kit reseller
> From: lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
> 
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:03:12AM -0500, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> > I need to buy 2 desktop systems to run VMWare. Anyone have recommendations
> > on places with the best prices?
> 
> I like shopping at canada computers personally, where I go and pick up
> whatever parts I want and put them together.
> 
> A Core 2 system should run VMware quite well, and 2GB of DDR2-6400 ram
> can be had for about $55, so that makes sense to get.
> 
> Most Core 2 systems support virtualization instructions which make
> vmware run more efficiently, and ram always helps too.  A pentium 4 will
> not and is also immensily inefficient (both power wise and in terms of
> getting instructions processed in a reasonable time, so forget that such
> obsolete technology exists no matter how cheap it looks).  If you are on
> a serious budget, look at the Athlon 64 X2 instead, since they are much
> better than the P4, although not as good as the Core 2.
> 
> For motherboard I only ever use asus, I never get anything with onboard
> video, and I use intel or nvidia chipsets for intel cpus, and nvidia
> chipsets for amd cpus (I used to use via but don't anymore).
> 
> I could make a complete list of what I would consider a good system if
> interested, but if not I won't bother.
> 
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