what is the best system that can be made including monitor, mouse ,keyboard etc, for under $10 000 canadian and then under $5 000 canadian
also what are the parts of a system to compromise on with buget problems example: get fx-55 instead 0f fx-57 to get better video card etc
Consider checking out this as a base spec.
http://users.on.net/~darkpeace/hardware/Opteron270.html
For best stability feature set get Single Rank* x4 DIMMs
* Not to be confused with bank, or sides of a DIMM. Thus can attempt use of 1T CMD rate, as each Opteron supports up to 4 ranks of memory at 1T.
* x4 (vs x8) and populate "all DIMM slots" for correct ChipKill (tm) operation. You'll still get stock Registered / ECC operation if you don't, but you can get a 'enhanced ECC' by using x4 ECC Reg DIMMs and populating every slot on the board from the word go. x4 means each chip on the module is only 4 bits wide, instead of 8 bits wide externally, but their are more chips on the module. This is a documented requirement for ChipKill (tm) functionality and often not included in 'off the shelf' Opteron systems sadly.... The Kingston KVR400S4R3A/1G meets this requirement, not much else on the marketplace does.
PDF:
http://www.valueram.com/datasheets/KVR400S4R3A_1G.pdf
Seriosuly worth getting familar with the above ^ if spending $4,000 or more on a PC (be it workstation, server, or somewhere in between). Nothing comes close for Autodesk 3D Max, etc to the above system in the same price range. (as of the date I built it anyway, but don't get a Radeon X800XL if you're expecting to do heavy 3D work on it. Get a ATI FireGL or Quadro video card instead, or use the SLI feature).
The Tyan K8WE is a good Opteron workstation / server hybrid board in the AU$5,000 price range. (AU and Can dollars are roughly equal). The SCSI is optional but SATA is fine these days. Tyan Thunder K8WE supports RAID-5 on SATA after BIOS update 1.02.
Windows XP and XP x64 Edition both support two CPU SOCKETS (with no limit on cores per socket, 'legally' anyway). Although in reality a MS patch would likely be required to enable 'above 4 core' support in XP/XP x64.
I have been lazy and not updated the website (
http://users.on.net/~darkpeace ) for awhile, the link to the above is currently broken from the site.... fix this weekend maybe
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Just get the fastest Dual-Core Opterons you can, 2.4 GHz, so Opteron 280 is currently the highest there (Run 2 x Dual Cores, for 4 x 2.4 GHz cores), and if Media Encoding get the WME9 x64 update from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx
Unless you only want 2 cores / 1 socket at 2.6 or 2.8 GHz, but then you might be looking more at Intel Pentium D EE (2 cores, each HyperThreaded, excellent for Video) in addition to the AMD Athlon 64 X2 and AMD Athlon 64 FX-60.
Really depends what you are after, fast 'core isolated' thread performance, or 'powerful' dual core, or quad core.... You could afford an Opteron 800 series (running 4 x dual core CPUs, for 8 cores... or 16 cores over 2+ boards). in the $10k price range surely.
OR....
Are you just trying to build (yet another) gaming PC ?, if so you'll get massively diminishing returns past about $3,000.... as very few (if any at all ?) games are designed for 4+ core systems.
Otherwise, if you are truthfully in need of a Quad-core AMD Opteron / Intel Xeon for whatever reason, feel free to MSN or é-mail me (see:
http://users.on.net/~darkpeace ; for my contact details); I can share benchmarks, NUMA config tips, etc with you.
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