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Yep, that's my guess. Just replying manaox who suggested an Ati 6000 series. I'm not a hardcore gamer. Far from it. I feel like a silly newbie asking about HD600 or 701 It kind of pisses me that a 2500 euros iMac, which is about what I need but for HDD capacity and some software applications missing, compared to a 2000 euros PC seems a turtle vs a rabbit. Slower CPU, way less RAM, just 2TB without RAID, no SSD... It doesn't seem a clever, practical decision under a strict performance POW Now I'm on-call so I not even know if the PC is still working. We'll see tomorrow.

HDD is Western Digital WD2001FASS 2 TB (Caviar Black, MAESTRO) it's a 7200rpm drive, not of the green line, so it doesn't idle that easily which should produce no issues on a RAID configuration. SSD is a Corsair Force F120 2,5" SSD 120 GB SATA 300, CSSD-F120GB2-BRKT. Speeds are 285 MB/s (read) and 270 MB/s (write). I know next to nothing about SSD, so other suggestions are very welcome. the i7 960 is 289 euros. The i7930 is 239. So the price difference isn't huge compared to the savings from getting this machine instead of an iMac. I could get a better GPU, but those don't come with a direct VGA output so to increased price, I'd need to add some adapter to plug the CRT. I'm a bit scared of top of the line GPUs. In my gamer days I toasted about 3 higher end Nvidias and 1 ATI in a couple of years with 0 overclocking involved I must say.

LOLz nope, but I may need to calculate flow and mean fundamental frequency fluctuations after inverse filtering on supracricoid laryngectomized patients Not really, toughest work I'll do with this machine is watching HD videos in damn Adobe flash, which seems to consume a lot of resources. Now that I've got the internet connection largely upgraded, the limiting factor seems to be the computer Also some audio and video transcoding. Eventually a little gaming if the thing is fast enough. I quit PC gaming a few years ago.

4x 4Gb modules, it is 16Gb isn't enough? Well, it's not very expensive and the mobo has 6 slots so I could add other 8Gb for 24Gb total. How much does W7 require? Wife's laptop is using W7 32 bits with 3Gb RAM and I wouldn't say it's a slow machine. Oh, after posting I've seen you edited hahahaha. Jacob, what CPU then? I'm kind of an Intel guy, I've been using their CPU's for almost 20 years now Nothing against AMD, other than urban legends of more heating and less reliability. Nowadays I'm not as knowledgeable about computers as I used to. For the price I thought the 960 i7 is now in the midrange.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I think the element causing the trouble is either the SCSI card or the SCSI HDD, a 15000rpm Cheetah where I placed the virtual memory. It could even be the wire. Once the disk is disabled the system runs smoothly. I think I'll have to move away from SCSI, despite I love my Plextor CD-ROM drive, and loved that damn fast disk. Thanks for the kind offer dsavitsk. There's an online retailer that has a configuration engine. I've configured this machine: - Asus P6X58D-E motherboard. It has a couple of PCI slots, so I could use my current soundcard. The mobo has RAID, USB3.0, FW, sound and fast LAN. - Intel i7 960 processor. - Corsair 120Gb SSD 285/275 MB/s - 16Gb of Kingston ValueRAM DIMM 4 GB DDR3-1066 (looks like I must get 1066 instead of 1330 or 1600 for the CPU speed). - 4x 2TB HDD WD 7200rpm for a Raid 1 configuration. - Asus ATI Radeon HD 5670, 1024 MB, 128 bits, PCIe 2.0 x16 It has VGA output so I can plug my CRT - Plextor serial ATA DVD-R/RW drive. - Coolermaster PSU 850w Ultra silent. Thermaltake box (if you don't get a box and PSU they won't mount and configure the machine). All this plus a fancy PCU cooler, W7 Professional 64bits, configured and sent to my place, costs me about 500 euros less than a i5 2Tb 4Gb RAM iMac By getting this I could keep the CRT, using the soundcard, and would be pretty ready for future upgrades in memory, SSD or eventually a graphics card if the CRT dies at some point, which I don't think will happen any time soon. The beast is 13 years old and works well. I also could make a decently usable PC from the "old" one, for someone in the family, charity... whatever. Any changes, improvements or downgrades to that PC configuration?

I considered that point too, I'm not sure if it's 2 or 3 years old. I changed it for the previous one dying the usual death of a computer PSU and it's about 800w, but I'm not sure it has any extra connections. I'm not sure Dual and Quad core mobos have different electrical connections from the ones required for the P4 865PE based ones.

CueTools has a nicer interface when it comes to choose the tags which best fit the disc. I use it a lot to split flac/ape + cue sets then converting into ALAC for iPod/MBP use. Other than that, it runs about 3x faster in the MBP than cue tools in the about-to-die PC. Not sure there's Audition for Mac... it's been many many years using MS-DOS and Windows computers and its software to just move away from that into OSX full time. When uninstalling software on Mac I'm still not sure I've done it right hahaha I had considered the Mac mini option too, but I'd need the mini-display to VGA adapter and an external DAC to get decent sound quality from it, about the same requirements and performance as the MBP. There's not much advantage from getting the mini other than the extra USB ports and a tad bigger HDD compared to the MBP.

My regular PC, which I built and have re-built along the last 10 years, is ageing and giving signs of a soon-to-happen crash. Not sure if it's the SCSI Adaptec board, one of the SCSI discs, one of the USB ports in the mobo, even the AGP card... whatever, it freezes, refuses to reboot and I'm afraid that while I've managed to get it booting, it won't in a few days. With this computer I have a 21" CRT Philips monitor which besides being a behemoth filling most of my desk, works great and offers excellent image quality. I'd feel kind of guilty getting rid of it, so any solution which allows to keep it has some bonus points. Options I'm considering keeping budget under 2500 euros: - Jumping into 21st century, getting rid of the CRT and getting an iMac: i5, 8Gb 2Tb (I know about SSD but that forces a budget override) This has the bad part of having to stop using nice programs like CueTools, or using them in virtual mode. Problem with external HDD which are NTFS and OSX isn't fully compatible, or if it is, you may pay a reliability price. I'd need to get used to OSX, which is something I more or less can do for the MBP experience, but kind of hate not being able to "fine tune" as in Windows. I'd probably need a new DAC or anything to get decent sound from it. - Buying a new mobo, processor, memory chips, graphics card, couple of HDD... I'd just keep the Soundcard and optical drives to build a new computer into the old Coolermaster box. It's possible I can use the PSU too. This would allow installing W7 which finally is a decent OS probably offering better performance than XP. Also would allow keeping the CRT. With the money I'd save compared to the iMac cost, I could set up a RAID thing or even getting a Drobo. - Not buying a damn new thing, just a USB duplicator bay so I can plug the external devices into the MBP, and a mini-display port to VGA adapter, so I might use the MBP with the CRT. Perhaps a side step until making a final decision. Fact is that I don'r really need much more than the MBP performance nowadays. Even a Mac-mini would do. What would you do? Lateral thought suggestions? I'm afraid I don't have much time before this thing crashes forever.

Happy B-Day sir!!

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I'll send you a PM in a few days. Now with the Easter holidays coming on I'm not sure everyone who could be interested is aware and has replied. Two interested guys so far

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Glad to know there are good news on all fronts. Best wishes Al, Shelly and Beefy.

Great news indeed Shelly, I'm truly happy for you

Great, thanks for the reply

Spanish MDs have such tiny wages that we get mostly refunds I'd love having half the income of an American ENT surgeon. Though in this case I'm afraid universal public free health services wouldn't be possible in this country. Trade offs I guess Good idea Ken, really good idea. Once I manage to solve this position thing, I'll be a lot more free for those travelling things. To begin with, I'll have two extra vacation days to get besides the summer holidays.

Poor wee thing, best wishes to her I've just accepted and sent my yearly taxes declaration. They should return me 1600+ euros This is a good chunk of the 009s cost. Eventually

Just to be sure, the demo/review unit is a D100 or a mk2?

Very nice items. Enjoy them. Congrats to the maker and the owner

Best wishes Shelly. Hopefully hubby has a good response to iv antibiotics and avoids surgery. I agree that the immunity suppression for the infection may have helped the shingles, and these have covered some of the intestinal symptoms. Anyway, no peritonitis, no perforations... we're still doing great. Good luck and have some rest yourself madam

Is it today or was it in February? Anyway, be happy Colin

Happy belated B-day. Was it good? I wish so

I wish you had a great one. Sorry for being this late to the good wishes.

Very Happy yet very belated birthday I hope you had a great day!

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