Comments on: Hardware suggestions welcome

By: id

id — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:26:18 +0000

If you’re just running this site on it and not much else than some low-end hardware off ebay is probably the way to go. You can buy a decent rackmount server for under $300 that would run this site (and probably 100 more at the same time). I’d recommend HP stuff, a G3 at least, they seem to work with any of the BSDs very well.

if this is something in your house, get something with an atom processor that is quiet, a site like this doesn’t really use anything in the way of resources.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:54:52 +0000

I went to a Microcenter store and bought a Dell Studio XPS 435T for less than the cost of similar components from Newegg. It has room for 24G memory and more disks. It may have been an in-store special, because the website is more expensive.

I would think a hosted website would be more practical, though.

By: Robin Carey

Robin Carey — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:08:22 +0000

Phenom 2 dual core X2 550 Black Edition (HT 4000MHz) clock-speed 3.1GHz – The quad core chips seem to have a lower HyperTransport of 2000MHz.

Either that processor or an Athlon 2 Socket AM3 (if you want to save some money).

Gigabyte make the best motherboards.
Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P – quite cheap board for socket AM3 – oh and it supports ECC Memory, so buy some ECC Memory for it.

(all modern computer systems should have ECC Memory to protect against bit-flips due to background radiation).

1TB Samsung SpinPoint F1 7200 rpm 32MB cache 8.9ms NCQ.
This is a cheap + big hard-disk.
I’ve gone off Seagate (for hard-disks) due to the firmware bugs they had in their hard-disks not so long ago.

And finally for a power supply:

Be Queit! Dark Power Pro 650W (highly recommended PSU according to PC magazines in the UK).

BTW I live in the UK and I keep an up-to-date list of the best computer hardware, for a PC I am planning to build when I can afford it ! :)

Cheers,
Robin

By: Lazarus

Lazarus — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:53:03 +0000

Heh. Were I in such a position, I’d be looking to buy whatever it is that Matt uses…