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Subject: Re: Computer I may buy seeking advice.

Author: Majd Al-Ansari

Date: 12:00:30 08/25/05

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Hell the RAM alone is worth the $199.  I would estimate the Quad system would
(on a multiprocessor friendly engine) to be equivalent to a PIV 2.4 Ghz.






On August 25, 2005 at 14:39:47, Joshua Shriver wrote:

>I came across this machine on ebay.
>Which is a Quad Xeon 500mhz machine with 2gigs of RAM.
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-PowerEdge-6300-Quad-Intel-Xeon-550MHz-2-GB-RAM_W0QQitemZ5801651548QQcategoryZ51229QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
>While 500mhz is rather slow by todays standards, I'm more interested in the fact
>that it's a quad system. I've also been told this could be later upgraded to
>perhaps 1-1.2ghz CPU's if I needed more speed.
>
>At $199 seems like a decent chess box for doing/testing SMP code.
>
>Any comments? Suggestions?
>
>Joshua Shriver



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