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that FX55 is almost $900, right?
Is RAM the moset important thing in a workstation?
Apr 22, 2005
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Well, you wanted a fast machine. Price out the comparable Pentiums and its a sweet deal.
I have seen these Shuttle systems in action. Don't let the size fool you. They have excellent cooling, are extremely quiet and take up little real estate. If you are going to have your head in SW all day and nothing much else you ought to consider it. They have one expansion slot, but room for several hard drives and a floppy.
I use one of theses shuttles every day for Solidworks and have have nothing but praise for them. Zero problems hardware wise. Athlon 64 bit 3 GHz
2 GB Ram Quadro card Very quiet. Can sit the thing right next to you on desktop and hardly hear the thing. Even with a big model open in SWX the cooling fan rarely speeds up past a low hum.
Oh I'm sure the Shuttle units are great little units
But I worry abt not having the extra expansion slots
Just curious what you might put in extra expansion slots besides the graphics card which has its own slot.
And who by worrying can add an extra minute to his life?
I might put a TV/PVR card in a slot
One card, one slot. What else? :)
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Ahh I'm so dumb and the other guys are !..
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Hmm not sure
You may be making your point
I've just never had a PC with so few slots
I have lotsa PCs with lotsa empty slots. :)
RAM is very important up to a certain level. If you're still running your workstation on 256 or 512Mb this is definitely the weak point. Go to 1 or
2gig and you'll see a lot of difference. If your harddisk is doing a lot of work (= swapping) then you need more ram. Dual CPU (or dual core) comes in handy when multitasking or when your program is multithreaded. For me the multitasking is important so it is also a definite plus. I hate to shell out 1000US$ for a decent OpenGL card so I always install a normal 3D card (like 6800GT) and use this.Johan
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Don't you run into the multiwindow slowdown problem with these non Quadro cards? (no back buffer)
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