I'm such a dork
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You know you're a dork when you get really excited about a new computer.
I'm spec'ing out a new computer for our office...check this out.
Dual Opteron 280 cpu's
4Gb RAM
Nvidia Quadro FX4500 vidya card
74Gb 10,000 rpm boot drive
1TB Raid 0 storage
Throw a little bit of this and a little bit of that and she comes to about $8,000.
Holy shnikes.
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That's scary. A terabyte of disk on an $8K PC. I think it was only about 4 years ago I put the first terabyte into ATI, and it was a near-line tape library. Damn thing never worked reliably either, we ended up ripping it out and replacing it with a TB of RAID anyways. I wanted to tie the SCSI cable around my trailer hitch and drag the box around the parking lot but finance wouldn't let me.
M60ti, VP180, QS8, M2ti, EP500, PC-Plus 20-39 M5HP, M40ti, Sierra-1 LFR1100 active, ADA1500-4 and -8
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shareholder in the making
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I am the Doctor, and THIS... is my SPOON!
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Perfect title for this thread, spiff.
Stated with much good feeling.
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Spiff, you're never gonna need all that storage and speed...why spend that kind of money on something you'll never use? <--Wisdom from my brother when I upgraded from a 486 to a Pentium 166. I think I had a whopping 64MB of RAM as well!
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We've got over 7TB of storage at work already and are always hunting for space.
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AMD is on the rise I think in the server world.
I'm kinda an AMD fanboy.
GO AMD!!!
M22s|VP100|QS4s|HSU STF2
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droooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
-jr
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Speaking of hunting for space.....
....when I worked for Bryant Computer in the early 70s, we had a new and improved 4.2 Gbit hard drive.
It ran with twelve 36" oxide coated aluminum platters, was about the size of a VW bug.
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i imagine Call of Duty 2 would run pretty well on that system! Thanks Craig, like I need another case of upgradeitis after buying a new TV and getting into RC airplanes!
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