What to do with this workstation

[Paul]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:47 PM, steve <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:

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> | On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Qiuli Han <ivyharry at gmail.com
> | <mailto:ivyharry at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> |     Hi gang,
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> |     For some reason i got a workstation with 2 quad core intel  E5410
> |     cpus and 8GB of FB-DIMM memory. It has only one PCI-E 16x slot, and
> |     the card on that slot is NVdia 8600GT with 256 DDR3 mem.
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> |     I plan to install Ubuntu 7.10 64bit on it.
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> |     The question is, with this box, what can I do with it?
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> |     I am thinking of use it for graphic, animation or video editing, but
> |     i am not sure if the graphic card is good enough for doing it and is
> |     there any software i can use for these purpose.
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> |     Fold at Home?
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> |     any suggestions are welcomed ....
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> | At the risk of being drawn and quartered.  I'd make it a Windows gaming
> | platform.
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> then drawn and quartered it is!! lol
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> why make it a windows gaming box when almost all windows games run under
> wine perfectly or with minimal fuss?


Minimal fuss is a maximum understatement.

But, I misread the OP's post.  I thought he was had 2 duo-cores.  2
quad-cores is a different story!

http://appdb.winehq.org/


I know what wine is, thanks.
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