Topic: Time for new system... need advise

[Dr. After]

I enjoy blabbing about it. as you will see.................................Sorry I got long winded.

Don't apologize one bit.  These are the types of responses every looks for when posting this vague of a scenario.  Thank you for all the personalized (for CAD) info.

Kickin ass post if I do say so myself...

[Dr. After]

Sarcasm?  If not, there went half your budget.

Nope and Nope....  Check this out:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824001226

[Chuck Gabriel]

Sarcasm?  If not, there went half your budget.

Nope and Nope....  Check this out:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824001226

Wow.  I had no idea prices had come down that much.  That's awesome.

[Dr. After]

Wow.  I had no idea prices had come down that much.  That's awesome.

I hadn't realized that either.  Very glad, because now I have some extra to throw at the CPU.

It looks like it is a tie between the HP xw4300 which comes with a free (useless to me) monitor that we could sell, or the Xi.  Dell just couldn't pull off the faster memory, but maybe I am just being picky.  HP offers the 667Mhz RAM and Dell only offers the 400Mhz.  I am getting 2 sticks of 1024 for each and both have a 800 FSB.

So....  maybe I'm getting an Xi, but it definitely looks like I'm not getting a Dell.  First time not going with them in over 5 years!!

[Dr. After]

Xi® MTower™ 64 SLI Workstation (Base Configuration)

  Upgrades And Options: 

AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2 4600+ 64Bit Dual Core (DC3800) 2x512KB Cache HyperTransport™
2048MB DDR2 800MHz PC2-6400 2x1024 Dual Rank Interleave
nVidia® Quadro FX 550 128MB DDR3 PCIe 2x DVI Single Link
160GB 7200RPM SATAII 300MB/s 8MB Cache 9ms avg. seek
HD Ctrl. According To Motherboard and HD Type Selected
CD-ROM 52x Speed ATAPI
1.44MB 3 1/2" Floppy Drive
On Board Sound AC 97 Codec or accordingly to motherboard selected
On board 1GB Ethernet (10/100/1000) on board LAN
Logitech® Deluxe Black Windows Keyboard
Logitech® 2+ Wheel PS/2 Mouse Black Optical w/Mouse pad
Genuine Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional CD-ROM w/manuals/act.reg.** SP2
Asus® M2NPV-VM Nvidia® NForce® 430 1xPCIe 2xPCI Non ECC DDR2 800 GeForce 6150 1GbEthernet+4xSATA3Gb RAID
460W Enermax Ball Bearing Thermo Controller or conforming with selected configuration
Standard Xi Warranty One Year on System, Mfg. on Monitor
Xi® MTower Black/Silver/Glass 2xFr.USB 460W UL PS 4x 5 1/4" 6x 3 1/2" 2x BB Fan.
 
Bought Seperately:
Samsung 204B

Total Cost:  $2,031.68

So I was able to get a dual core processor with 2GB of 800 Mhz RAM and a 20.1" 5ms flat panel monitor for almost $500 under budget.  And I even get the geeky glass case with lighted fans, so it glows!!!   

[Andrea]

These guys are always winning the Cadalyst shootouts, withs some amazing machines. My last full upgrade was one of these (450mhz athalon within the week that athalon came out, 26gig hdd when 20 was as big as I could find elsewhere).

I was doing Max a lot at the time and had used it on several very hot computers (for the time). The machine they built crashed less than any of the others by a factor of 7 or10. I am considering making them my next upgrade. It is between them and a local genius and friend.

athalon or athlon ?...

 :kewl:

[Dr. After]

athalon or athlon ?...

Deepens own haw suthern you is...

[RbtDanforth]

"Deepens own haw suthern you is..."
We is so sothern down here the Deep South is north

[PHX cadie]

Ya'lls gatta talk Inglish! If-in eyes member right Andrea isin France!
Gatta go, hav'n gater fer supper