PC is dead!

July 15th, 2006 at 12:08 · Filed Under Computing, Linux 

My Linux power workstation cum server is dead. It’s motherboard problem. The motherboard is Albatron’s KX-18D Pro II socket 462. It sported an AMD Athlon XP 3000+, 1GB RAM, 120GB SATA hard disk, 256MB Video Graphics.

It was one of the fastest PC 2 years ago. Now, it is ancient. It is hard to find a replacement motherboard that supports Athlon XP 3000+.

Perhaps, I should get a dual G5 PowerMac. But it is very expensive.

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3 Responses to “PC is dead!”

  • Kevin on August 1st, 2006 19:39 1

    Apple G5 will be a good choice if the pocket is deep. Two P4 PCs in a local university literally burnt up when they were used to process DNA sequence. At the end, G5 proves to complete the ardent task.

  • Adrian Hoe on August 1st, 2006 19:52 2

    The Apple PowerMac G5 is the good choice because it has the PowerPC CPU. With Apple’s Intel roadmap, I doubt it will be as good as PowerPC although Intel has significant speed advantage over PPC.

    I prefer AMD over Intel because AMD has lower power consumption and therefore cooler.

  • Adrian Hoe on August 1st, 2006 19:57 3

    Most universities in the west will choose either AMD or PPC. Don’t know why local universities are so incline to Intel.

    But I feel that local universities make their choice without looking into technical merits. Just like they would choose Java instead of Ada.

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