JAJAJAJAJAJA ROFLMAO@HINT I know Liam, thanks for your thorough reply. It is exactly my point. To get a 2007 middle-high end workstation. jajaja I am so glad I didn't say what I was using know. :-) Listen, I used to live in the US, also Barcelona, where I earned in the same Units of the computer prices. Now I live in Buenos Aires, I earned in Xs/4 so I really can't afford + I don't need so much hardware. Ok here is what I am using now, so you can see that 2007 looks like a giant leap for me. ;-) my current WS is a PIV 3.0MHZ w/Hyperthreading 2gb of ram and two sata1 drives in fake raid 0. it works prety good and raid is working for 3rd year in a row and no trouble so far (knock on wood). for 590 bucks they offered me that core 2 quad. I think 775 was a nice chipset and it is prety cheap this days. I think that with a little help I might be able to buy the parts separately and assemble it my self. Therfore be able to buy more or better hardware. f(t) <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Liam Proven <<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com" target="_blank">lproven@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> On 8 July 2010 16:19, Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail <div><<a href="mailto:francisco.diaztrepat@gmail.com" target="_blank">francisco.diaztrepat@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > I hope you don't mind me asking this here: > > Hi guys, I'm currently in the process of researching some hardware for my > next ubuntu workstation. > My goal is to spend between 500 and 600 uds </div>What are "uds"? Do you mean US$? <div> > and I want to put some enfasis > on what I think is the current bottle neck of speed this days, and that is > Hard Drives. > I would like to have a RAID array to have better performance. </div>You mean RAID0? Waste of money. Doesn't really help much and doubles the risk of failure. If you want disk performance, get an SSD boot drive. Disable swap. Keep /home on rotating media. 1TB drives are quite cheap now. Consider a motherboard with SATA 6gig. <div> > I am thinking in getting Intel 2 Core Quad 8300 processor. </div>The Core2 line is past it now. Core i7 is the modern performance range. <div> > other choices too. Because Ubuntu is more focus on software/fake RAID I > would like a multicore processor, and 64bit arch sounds good too. </div>All modern CPUs are 64-bit. RAID is for redundancy in servers, not performance. <div> > So right now my options looks something like this: > Processor Intel Core 2 Quad 8300 > RAM 1 X 2gb DDR2 800mhz </div>2 sticks for dual-channel operation on low-end processors, 3 sticks for triple-channel on Core i7. 2GB is small these days; 4GB is a working minimum, 6GB for Core i7. You seem to be trying to specify a medium-to-high end machine from 2006-2007. Hint: it's 2010 now. -- Liam Proven • Profile: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven</a> Email: <a href="mailto:lproven@cix.co.uk" target="_blank">lproven@cix.co.uk</a> • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: <a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com" target="_blank">lproven@gmail.com</a> Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: <a href="mailto:lproven@hotmail.com" target="_blank">lproven@hotmail.com</a> • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>