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rossfrom

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Hi everyone

I need computer for students who gonna use it for visual studio 2010, photoshop, and lot of virtual machines. The system operate 24/7 and be should quiet as possible.

I'll be happy to get your notes about the system i have in mind.

AMD Phenom 2 X4 955 Black Edition Quad Core AM3 BOX
ThermalTake DuOrb CL-P0464 CPU Fan
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD880G CHIPSET
Transcend 4GB Kit (2GBx2) DDR3 1333Mhz Core I3 I5 I7
Samsung EcoGreen 2TB=2000GB Sata HD204UI
Cooler Master Elite 335+Cooler Master 400Watt
Samsung Cream 2333T 23" Wide 8ms PVA 1:50000 1920x1080
Creative Inspire SBS 245
LG GH22 SATA x 22 Black
 
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budget and location?
 

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Your system looks mostly ok to me. However, if you're gonna have lots of virtual machines, then I think you should get a 6-core CPU and 8GB RAM.

Oh and welcome to TPU. :toast:
 

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"lots of virtual machine", how many exactly? Generally, they split it to 1 thread per machine, along with 1-2gb of ram, so if "a lot" here translates to more than 4 then I would seriously start to consider getting i7 or 1055T.

Edit: why do people always beat me to giving advice?

Edit no 2: Ecogreen is no good, it will bottleneck the rig bad. Get some higher performing drives instead, like raid 0 or things like that.
 
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photoshop or any graphic editor and virtual machine need much ram, so more ram is better, if it bigger than 4 gig you need to use 64 bit OS to utilize them
silent system = high quality fan and heat sink, how about thermalright silver arrow?
 

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Edit no 2: Ecogreen is no good, it will bottleneck the rig bad. Get some higher performing drives instead, like raid 0 or things like that.

+1. The Caviar Black 2TB will be a good choice. Putting it in a raid 0 array with a dedicated raid card will give much better performance, but will be pricey.

Whatever you do, make sure you make backups! I think raid 0+1 does this, but don't quote me on it.
 

rossfrom

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Thanks a lot

I'll buy another kit of memory (sum up of 8GB) and AMD 1055T . I'll use virtual box with 2 windows server 2008 and 4-5 clients. Backing up daily to NAS server will do the job for me and the Ecogreen are almost noiseless drive (Caviar Black noisy). Do you think the built in raid controller with 2 drives will be fast enough?

ThermalTake DuOrb CL-P0464 CPU Fan is quiet enough and has a good price so I sticking with it.

And now for something completely different :) in 4 weeks (9 jan 2011) sandy bridge are coming from intel and my friend say that there are big performance boost in the same price, should I wait? (if the difference are bigger than 20% percent i think i'll better wait)
 

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I have two identical Caviar Black 1GB drives in my rig. The side panel is permanently off, so there is no noise insulation and I can tell you that they are not very noisy at all. While yes, they are not whisper quiet like the green drives, I don't think you'll be troubled by noise with them, especially not in an enclosed case. And you'll benefit from the extra performance. ;)
 
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