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* I'm biased towards an AMD CPU at the moment, but not tied to it | * I'm biased towards an AMD CPU at the moment, but not tied to it | ||
* The [http://eu.shuttle.com/en/DesktopDefault.aspx/tabid-72/170_read-14599/ Shuttle SX38P2 Pro] looks ideal | * The [http://eu.shuttle.com/en/DesktopDefault.aspx/tabid-72/170_read-14599/ Shuttle SX38P2 Pro] looks ideal | ||
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| + | <table> | ||
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| + | <td>[http://www.ebuyer.com/product/140300 Shuttle XPC SX38P2 Pro]</td> | ||
| + | <td align="right">£347.66</td> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
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| + | <td>[http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130483 Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3GHz]</td> | ||
| + | <td align="right">£167.00</td> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
| + | <tr> | ||
| + | <td>[http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135600 EXTRA VALUE 4GB KIT (2X2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 MEMORY]</td> | ||
| + | <td align="right">£60.00</td> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
| + | <tr> | ||
| + | <td>[http://www.ebuyer.com/product/134944 Asus 8800GT 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI HDTVOut PCI-E Graphics Card]</td> | ||
| + | <td align="right">£160.09</td> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
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| + | <td>[http://www.ebuyer.com/product/94471 Logitech Z-4 2.1 Speakers With Remote Control - 40W RMS]</td> | ||
| + | <td align="right">£50.98</td> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
| + | <tr> | ||
| + | <td>[http://www.ebuyer.com/product/75565 Logitech Cordless Click! Plus Rechargeable Optical Mouse]</td> | ||
| + | <td align="right">£33.57</td> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
| + | <tr> | ||
| + | <td>[http://www.ebuyer.com/product/104611 KeySonic Backlit USB Black Keyboard]</td> | ||
| + | <td align="right">£23.39</td> | ||
| + | </tr> | ||
| + | </table> | ||
Revision as of 00:07, 3 March 2008
I'm thinking of buying a decent desktop machine for home, since I haven't had one at all for a couple of years (I just use a Thinkpad) and I'm starting to miss some it.
Requirements
Must have
- Decent CPU that supports hardware virtualisation
- Decent graphics card that can drive at least two LCDs
- Two LCDs, as big as I can afford
- Probably 4G RAM, maybe 8G
- Two disks, smallest that can be bought (storage is on the fileserver)
- DVD writer
Would be nice
- Gigabit network
Ideas
- Shuttle PCs look good. The only slot I'll need is for a graphics card
- I'll be using Debian or Ubuntu Linux and I'm told nvidia graphics cards works best at the moment
- I'm biased towards an AMD CPU at the moment, but not tied to it
- The Shuttle SX38P2 Pro looks ideal
