These are some numbers for the cpu/mb/ram/video assuming all else will be equal. The AMD Phenom II X4 945 is available again. It’s a great CPU that allows for ECC RAM, if one is willing to spend 2x as much for ECC RAM these days. Intel Sandy Bridge system will be much quicker, though I …
My phone is experiencing a lot of problems, most noticeably that call quality has been abysmal. So I’m looking at new phones and perhaps a new carrier / plan.
I speculated earlier that I might buy a sandy bridge CPU and motherboard and that it would represent a break from 16 years of buying AMD. I have always bought at the low end of price where AMD has always offered superior competition. But I am not blind to how well sandy bridge systems perform …
My current PC is really giving me grief by being so slow. I am in dire need of a faster system but probably won’t buy for another month or 2. Here’s what I’m thinking: CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K Motherboard: something with an Intel H67 chipset Memory: 16GB DDR3 Storage: OCZ Vertex 3 120GB (or maybe …
Running SSD’s in RAID can get very expensive very quickly. A more cost effective solution is to have a disk RAID and use an SSD as a cache. I’m not sure if any of these are production ready but all are worth watching: zfs-fuse – supports the ZFS L2ARC feature which can be used to setup …
While choosing an SSD may be difficult at the moment, other components for a solid workstation are not. Here’s what I’ve been looking at for the past few months:
I’ve been researching the value range of SSD’s. The most important thing to find out with an SSD is what controller it’s using. SSD’s with the same controller tend to have nearly identical performance characteristics. Since hdparm supports TRIM I started looking for an SSD which supported TRIM in the $100 – $200 range. Here’s …