my new fast machine (ncr)

[slowtwitch]

We also run sophisticated software packages on site, not fast though 

 

Sigerette bocks and pencel.

 

Times the aswer by 2 for safety, and you're within 5% of the correct answer...the other 5% is not worth the effort and only amounts to 0.001% of the project cost 

slowtwitch2009-10-15 13:03:46

[Airborne]

XP, damn what a waste.

From what I have seen of Vista you would need about 50GB of RAM to get it working, and then only just

 

That beast deserves a decent Operating System, not that M$ rubbish.

 

It would make a fine Linux server with Xen installed running multiple virtual servers.

 

Its stable, secure and free, the possibilities are endless........

[Christopher Brunsdon]

 

Why this serious machine with server type processors? and 50GB of RAM?

What is the machines purpose? Surely not MS-Office?

 

DB Server perhaps?

App/Web Server?

I do structural analysis & design. Machine was specified as a solver for structure and flow analysis software.

Analysis models involve a lot of number crunching - I will be able to solve larger' date=' more detailed models, plus cutting solving time always a good thing. High disk speed, decent amount of RAM was important. CPU speed was not a prime requirement, but I could fit some nice ones into the budget.

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Well you are running a FX card so I take it you've got 4 monitors attached. The only reason to go for the FX really.

 

But 50GB is a nice setup and not unreasonable as your running SSDs. You need the extra RAM to act as buffers as SSD are slow with writes and suffer from disk IO.

 

Server SSDs share your onboard RAM to cache their contents to overcome this problem, hence the mega onboard RAM in this case.

 

(Our company looked at SSDs for our new servers and this issue has put us off for now.)

 

[Rocket-Boy]

The FX cards are workstation GFX and process GPU functions slightly differently to the standard GFX accelerators. No one would buy a R30k workstation card when they could rather SLI 3 other cards or even run an ATI 5870 with eyefinity which would give you 6 monitors.