Posted by
jiho on
Mar 17, 2009; 11:19pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Hardware-recommendations-tp3693269p3693273.html
Thanks for your answer.
On 2009-March-17 , at 17:07 , Justin Walker wrote:
> At $4000+, you're being taken for a massive ride. You could easily
> build a
> core i7 system with dual WD Velociraptor drives in RAID 0 + a couple
> slow 1
> TB drives, 6GB of triple channel DDR3 1600 RAM, and mid-range (say
> maybe a
> 8800GT 512MB) video card for ~$2500. That would be ample for your
> needs.
Oh yeah, $4000 is way too expensive for this kind of application. It's
just that my supervisor works on a PowerMac G5 so I started from this
range, to have a baseline for her. Then, after reaching the $4000, I
went on to PCs and figured that I would just downgrade a bit from the
Mac and get a much cheaper system. And I was surprised to see the
price of those supposedly cheaper machines rise up high there. So I
did the part-for-part comparison just out of curiosity.
I am looking for something around $2000 + screen and external backup
storage. Thank you for your advice, especially on the video card. I
will look into that.
> I suggest looking into some of the smaller vendors. I have ordered
> machines
> from TeamHPC before, they have a federal government contract so your
> school
> should be able to place a no-bid order with them.
Thanks very much for that, it seems to be just what we need. I'll call
them tomorrow!
Jean-Olivier Irisson
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Division of Applied Marine Physics
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, Florida 33149-1098
+1 786 342 3410
http://jo.irisson.free.fr/work/