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go to compusa auction site http://www.compusaauctions.com/ look for an amd
athlon 64 unit they normally have 160 gb hd and 512 of ram along with good
video w 128 meg card, cd rw and dvd rw and digital card readers along with 5
usb tv out 2 firewire ports and xp home. here is one up now!
http://www.compusaauctions.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prrfnbr=55894490&prmenbr=32764874&aunbr=56241200
They go for about 500 and are as fast or faster than intc look for 1 with a
one year warranty if possible, slap in extra ram and your own os and save a
grand over a dell. Plus they are ready for windows 64 bit os which is in
beta now.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Romi Ghose" <r.ghose@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 6:48 PM
Subject: OT- Dell Dimension, Celeron vs Pentium 4
> I currently use a 600MHz (P2 perhaps?!) with 1GB RAM, 18GB x 2 7200 RPM
SCSI
> drives, and four 32MB PCI graphic cards (each single display) . The OS is
> NT4 and I have never seen more than 300MB RAM utilized for what I do. The
> OS is corrupted but still working (phew!) and I am thinking of replacing
> with a Dell Dimension 3000 that has Celeron D 320 (2.4 GHz, 533 FSB), 512
MB
> Dual Channel 400 MHz DDR SDRAM, 80 GB Ultra ATA/100 7200 RPM HardDrive and
> three Matrox G450 PCI (each dual display) cards. The OS will be NT4 and
> will run run about 10 TS2Ki charts (with about five indicators in each
> chart), in real time connected to eSignal (collecting 300 stock and
indeces
> data). Also will run a couple of eSignal advanced charts, T&S for one
stock
> at a time, a quote window of about 30 symbols and a news window. Will the
> Celeron be a drawback for all this or will it be at least similar to my
> existing setup? Thanks in advance for any advice/feedback.
>
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