Recommendation on Barebone kit reseller

[Jamon Camisso]

On November 23, 2007 11:39:52 am Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.

I believe the AMD X2 black processors have unlocked multipliers, I'd be 
interested in trying one of those out and comparing the I/O and other 
operations to the core 2 systems out there.

Jamon
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