[ubuntu-za] New Computer

[Charl Wentzel]

frans <dormakorp at vodamail.co.za> wrote:

>On 12/09/27 17:47, Lee Sharp wrote:
>>
>> On 09/27/2012 09:50 AM, Bill Cairns wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am thinking of a new computer. Can anyone comment on the Gigabyte
>>> motherboard GA-H61MA-D2V?
>>
>My first question usually are what will the system be used for?
>

+2

I bought a Pentium Dual Core laptop 4.5 years ago, when the Ethernet port was blow a customer offered me an even older Centrino laptop.  I'm still using it with no desire to upgrade yet.  I'm limited to 32-bit and < 4GB RAM and it runs fine! Here's the slapper: my main function is software development!  Linux makes even a lower spec machine funtional.

I'm busy testing a ebox-3350 with a Vortex86MX processor as a functional desktop.  The processor is so old (i586) you can't run anything higher than Ubuntu 10.04 on it.  It's a bit slow but it works.

On the other hand I have a i7 desktop machine with 1TB RAID 10 array and 8GB of RAM. On I use this as my virtual host for experimental/demo systems.  On this I'm currently running 11 Ubuntu VMs.  This is not bad considering that (except for the RAID array) its a lower spec than most guys "minimum requirement" for their personal desktop.

That said, I do love high spec machines too. I'm hosting a virtual host server for customer business apps with this spec:
- dual CPU Intel motherboard
- 2 x 2.6 GHz hex (6) core Xeon processors
- 48 GB RAM (upgradeable to 96GB)
- 2TB RAID 10 array

According to my estimation I could run at least 80 VMs on it.

The bottom line; you'll probably never need all the power you think you need.

Charl

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