> What are you going to be using this machine for? This sounds like > overoveroveroverkill for a desktop machine (and inappropriate for a > server...). Save yourself a lot of money and just get IDE drives and use > software RAID, if you really want it. Then again, I don't know anything > about your price constraints and requirements for the machine. My first > instinct is that you could scale all of it back a bit, still be very > happy with your machine's performance, and feed a small country with the > money you'd save =)
Thanks for your input. I am going to be using this machine for whatever... Fast compiles, serving up my website, perhaps a game or two, video capture, etc. I have 6 of these SCSI 10k drives and the 5304 Compaq RAID card already given to me by a friend. So, free free free, so my choices are use em or let them lay around... I think it would be MUCH cooler to use them! :) I also have not had a new computer in YEARS and am in the profession, and I want my dream machine dammit! :) I am agreeing that I could scale it all back, but why? The ton of RAM and dual procs is also because for the Windoz apps I still need, I am going to be running VMWare, if you've every ran it, it is a HOG! But like I said, I am well aware how much overkill this is, but I have the money and never had a computer that would be my dream machine this is kind of like the geeks midlife crisis, only I'm 27. :) I am more interested in comments like, "This video card sux ass under linux, go with a Widged-Inc card, etc" Thanks! Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
