What to do with this workstation

[Qiuli Han]

Thanks for all your repies.

i was also thinking dual booting so i can play some games on XP, however,
Xeon processors are not really good at gaming and the graphic card is not on
the top of the line. Games on the other hand, most of them only can use one
of my eight cores. so pretty much gaming is not really a good way to go.
Plus i have both xbox360 and PS3.

i know at a part of animation work, it will use a lot of CPU resource. but
since i dont know a lot of it. I think i may need to start from zero to
learn it. the other thing is, what program should i use(free of course).

another idea i can think of is using it to learn linux clustering by running
a few Virtaul Machines, ie, Vmware Workstation or server.

scientifdic project is also good. but....be more selfish, i would like to
have something can benefit myself. at least can make me learn something.

thanks



On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Paul <pfortin at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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,
> > |
> > |     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.
> > |
> > |     I plan to install Ubuntu 7.10 64bit on it.
> > |
> > |     The question is, with this box, what can I do with it?
> > |
> > |     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.
> > |
> > |     Fold at Home?
> > |
> > |     any suggestions are welcomed ....
> > |
> > |
> > | At the risk of being drawn and quartered.  I'd make it a Windows
> > gaming
> > | platform.
> > |
> >
> > then drawn and quartered it is!! lol
> >
> > why make it a windows gaming box when almost all windows games run under
> > wine perfectly or with minimal fuss?
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> Minimal fuss is a maximum understatement.
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> But, I misread the OP's post.  I thought he was had 2 duo-cores.  2
> quad-cores is a different story!
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>  http://appdb.winehq.org/
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> I know what wine is, thanks.
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