[tech] Upgrading our PCs..

[James Andrewartha]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Grahame Bowland wrote:

> We have the motherboards we need. So we need two Pentium III CPUs, 
> and 128Mb of RAM times three (to get mussel to 256Mb and 128Mb for the others)
>
> Component                                                           Cost
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Intel Pentium III 650MHz "E" 256k L2 on-die with SSE (100 FSB)       510
>
> So we'd be looking at around $2425 to do this. I'm sure we can better this,

Do we really need to buy brand spanking new PIIIs? Above a certain point
more MHz means little to real world performance, with things like
memory/hdd/network bandwith being more important. I think a couple of
500-550 MHz second-hand PIIIs would be much cheaper for not much loss in
performance.

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