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On Wednesday 20 August 2008 14:22, Rob Beard wrote: > Tom Potts wrote: > > I must confess I haven't actually looked at prices on this - and if I > > switch my brain on and think I can hear Nelson Bunce off to one side. > > However as a pathetic excuse I could argue that if I have a motherboard > > that can only take 2G ram then a couple of gig SSD would help if you do > > silly simulations like me from time to time or even 3d animations. > > I guess that wouldn't count for 64 bit motherboards tho.... > > Tom te tom te tom > > Just a thought, it would probably work out cheaper to upgrade the PC and > pack in a whole wodge of memory. You're looking at under £100 for 4GB > (2 x 2GB kit) of DDR2 memory and decent motherboards have at least 4 > slots these days (decent - around at least about £50 not cheap £30 > motherboards). Couple that with a quad core CPU and I bet simulations > would run nice and quick. > Then there's running code on the GPU as well, maybe that if it's > possible would speed things up. What you need is a pci-card with 16 athlons on it http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Atom-Athlon-Efficient,review-31253.html anyone up for designing a few boards - we might even make one fast enough to run vista on it - though for a 16 core license you'd need a platignum card.... Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html