Iamthefallen's Journal: HP Workstation - Yum yum

Planning to buy a new desktop at work, with multiple Visual Studios and long running SQL queries, my current machine is slowing down quite a bit. I was hoping the Quad Core CPUs would be a bit cheaper, but $1200 for a QX6700 is a bit steep.

Here's what I'm looking at atm:

HP xw4400 Workstation Microsoft® Windows®
Genuine Windows® XP Professional SP2
HP xw4400 Localization kit
Intel® Core(TM) 2 Duo E6700 2.67 GHz, 4 MB, 1066 MHz FSB
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 128MB PCIe
HP 4GB (4x1GB) DDR2-667 ECC RAM
HP 160GB SATA 3Gb/s NCQ 7200 1st HDD
HP 16X DVD+/-RW DL LightScribe 1st Drive
HP 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive

+ A second hard drive. HP is way overpriced on those though.

Can you still get a computer with XP?

[Shadow Wrought]

One of my buddies at work was looking at upgrading his 6 year old PC but couldn't find one that came with XP. All of them came with something called Vista. Wonder why I never heard of it on the dot? ;-)

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[Iamthefallen]

We just got rid of our last Windows 2000 machines last week... I'm thinking XP is going to be around for a looong time.

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[Shadow Wrought]

I actually liked Win2K much more than I have liked XP. But I am curesed with XP at work and on the wife's computer at home. I figure this is purgatory for all my Amiga prosetylizing after it had died.

go RAID 1

[TheConfusedOne]

Get another 160 GB drive and mirror them. Really cheap data insurance policy.

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[ak3ldama]

i guess personally, i'd love that hp box if it could be in raid 0. compiling c++ code (and other things) would just rock with a faster box with fast hdd access. also...oh how i want a 4gb setup!

Terrific

[Degrees]

Looks like the bang-for-the-buck ratio clearly favors the E6700 instead of the X6800.

Really looks terrific. If I could push it, I'd go for 8 GB RAM, because this box should push four VM's easily, and 2 GB per VM would be pretty sweet (assuming you have to live with it for the next four years).

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[Iamthefallen]

I'd actually love to get a slower Quad core. Even a E6600 would probably do for me as the difference between the Dual Core 6600 and Dual Core 6700 isn't huge.

With my usage the problem isn't that things take a long time to complete, it's the stuttering and general slowdown that prevents multi tasking while something is working in the back ground. Keeping two or three Visual Studio, Outlook, a couple word documents, Visio, Web browsers etc etc open slows things down quite a bit! My local development SQL Serve

you will love the xw series workstations

[robi2106]

those are just amazingly well designed systems with quiet fans. i had several in my cube once.

jason