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Old 13th November 2008
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Originally Posted by nfries88 View Post
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I'll be wanting at least 2GB of DDR2 memory to run Vista smoothly.
After all that money you want to spend you want to put only 2GB of RAM
You are crating bottle neck. Even we poor OpenBSD guys have more ram than that
Code:
OpenBSD 4.4 (GENERIC.MP) #1812: Tue Aug 12 17:22:53 MDT 2008
    deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 3199037440 (3050MB)
avail mem = 3102326784 (2958MB)
Also little bit of multiprocessing
Code:
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80GHz, 1800.19 MHz
cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,CX16,xTPR,LONG
cpu0: 2MB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache
cpu0: apic clock running at 199MHz
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
cpu1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80GHz, 1799.97 MHz
cpu1
If you are planning on running FreeBSD amd64 (you were talking about
quads and core 2 duos) I would get between 4-8 GB of RAM.
Quads are so cheap now that I would not think twice to get quad core processor. On new egg where I shop (much better than Tiger direct in my opinion) today's least price for Quad core is $179 that is probably only $60 more than Core 2 Duo. I would put 8 GB or RAM with Quad.
If I am spending all that money I would not use cra**y board since that is the most important component. You probably need to spend well over $100 for mother board if not $200.

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