Re: Soliciting hardware recommendations
On Sat, 14 Dec 2013, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 23:21:22 -0500 (EST), Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 13 Dec 2013, Stephen Powell wrote:
> >>
> >> I have decided to buy a 64-bit system for myself for Christmas.
> >> But [snip]
> >>
> >> (1) As a host system for Hercules. Hercules is an open source
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> (2) This system will also double as a desktop system. I'm not a
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> Does anyone wish to contribute any opinions? Anything from general
> >> advice to specific hardware recommendations is welcome. And feel
> >> free to ask follow-up questions.
> >
> > What's your budget?
> > ...
>
> Good question. I'm not sure what things cost these days; but for
> planning purposes, lets try a ballpark figure of somewhere around
> $500 US. If I find that I cannot get what I want for that price, I
> may be willing to spend more.
$500, I think, is overly optimistic. My main system which I built from
components cost $600 seven years ago. And I even used parts (graphics
card, DVD burner, keyboard, mouse, and CRT monitor) from my previous
system to keep the cost down. It had a single core 2.0 GHZ Athlon64
CPU with 2 GB DDR2 RAM. These were top-of-the-line components at the
time. (I've upgraded it numerous times since.)
So, back to budget: I think $700 to $800 for a lower end,
built-it-myself system is more realistic. Not including monitor, of
course.
B
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