Desktop hardware recommendation

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

If you can afford to pay more, you can get a *heck* of a system for not
much money these days.  I recently bought a data analysis machine for a
study I'm administering - I needed it to be RAM-heavy and fast, but
graphics were not an issue.  I bought it from Filtech on Spadina near
College.

It has a nice but generic case, good PSU, average HD and a 26.6" LCD
screen, and a basic Nvidia video card.  It uses a solid Asus motherboard
with USB 3.  What is especially nice is that the CPU is an i7 950 and it 
has 24Gb of triple-channel RAM - all for $1600 taxes and environmental 
fees included.

It is not running Linux, but it certainly could.
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yours,

William

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