Does anyone know a computer store which has barebone systems or no OS systems on a reasonable price.
I am looking for something with this specification and a price range of $400-$900
Intel Duo Core 2.1GHz+ L2 2MB
AMD64 x2 6xxx series
FSB 1066 MHz
4GB DDR2 RAM @ 677-800Mhz
Minimum 250GB SATA I or II
DVD 18x writer
I have checked Tiger/Factory Direct and Craiglist. I need personal recommendations.
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get somefin with warranty - u should be THE GOOD
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Thanks, I don't need warrenty. My current system was built by myself 8 years ago and it is still kicking. But its time for me to get a performance server, that should be a generice customize, not a OEM/name brand, so I can modify it down the road if I want.
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have you checked PC Village? I bought a desktop barebones system from them almost 5 years ago. I think they have multiple branches throughout the GTA.
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Thanks UT.
How does it sound to you with 4GB RAM for some serious R/3 and Oracle (w/Java) training/testing environment. I will be running VMWare on it and would like to allocate 3.5GB RAM to R/3 image and about 3GB to Oracle image etc. Will have one image up at a time, so no resource contention should be causing grief. I will add a WD SATAII 500GB later on. Its on sale @ 129 at same store.
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=013645&cid=170.45
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 1066Mhz FSB w/ 4MB Cache
Motherboard Socket 775 with 1066Mhz system bus support
Memory 4x 1GB DDR2 667Mhz (Dual Channel)
Graphics Intel GMA 950 (support Vista Aero)
Hard Drive 250G SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache
Optical Drive 18x DVD?R/RW Writer
Sound Card High Definition Audio (6 Channel)
Chassis Premium Mid Tower ATX w/ 400W Power Supply
Operating System Operating System not included
I think from a business machine POV its not a bad package, except for the 677MHz RAM speed.
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I didn't mention brand name, I got the impression you are open to used systems as well. In that case, just look for warranty (on major parts, mb, cpu, hd etc). Have you checked forums of REDFLAGDEALS.com
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Thanks MS, I got the warranty for Mainboard and CPU etc.
My specs are
Intel Duo Core E6420 L2 4MB
FSB 1066 MHz
Asus P5B-VM SE motherboard
4GB DDR2 RAM @ 677Mhz
WD 500GB SATAII with 16MB Cache
DVD-RW LG EIDE 18x
Onboard Intel GMA x3000 DVI supports HD (I don't care)
6.1 Channel Audio
Now question to Geeks is, should I go with XP 32-bit professional since it will recog only 3GB on 64-bit architecture, or go with XP 64-bit or Windows 2003 64-bit as they can address 8GB RAM?
If I go with XP 32-bit and install VMWare and have guest machines running 64-bit that can access more than 3GB direct from BIOS, how does it sound like?
If anyone has played with VMware to that extent, please reply.
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VMWare acts as a layer between your VIRTUAL MACHINES and Windows. It can only provide access to what it has access too. IF VMware software can't access - it will not provide low level access to virtual machines (because Windows will not allow it).
3GB limit? That doesn't sound rite. Check that again!
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I am not aware of any 3GB limit on Windows XP Pro... have had few people running 4 GB machines on windows XP without any problem.
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Got this info from MS blog site. My problem is that the BIOS is not showing more than 3GB as available. However it does acknowledge that 4GB is installed. Any settings that you may know of that is preventing it. Could it be because of onboard vid/aud etc etc?
OS will come after, I probably will try 32-bit XP first, once BIOS makes all of 4GB available. Also when tried Win2K, it only recognized 137GB out of 500GB drive. Should I do something about it, as I remember long time ago doing some registry editing for my 160GB on XP desktop. I think when I will install XP 32-bit, same problem will happen.
Thanks for the advice guys.
Virtual Address Space:- A 32bit process running on a 32bit Windows OS can address 2GB of Virtual Address Space, unless it is compiled LARGEMEMORYAWARE.
- A 32bit process compiled LARGEMEMORYAWARE running on a 32bit Windows OS can address 3GB of Virtual Address Space, with /3GB enabled.
- A 32bit process compiled LARGEMEMORYAWARE running on a 64bit x64 Windows OS can address 4GB of Virtual Address Space.
Physical RAM:
- A 32bit Windows XP or Windows Vista OS can address 4GB of Physical RAM, no exceptions.
A 32bit Windows 2000 Datacenter Server can address 32GB of Physical RAM with /PAE enabled.
A 32bit Windows Server 2003 Web Edition server can address 2GB of RAM, no exceptions.
A 32bit Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition server can address 4GB of RAM, no exceptions.
A 32bit Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition server can address 32GB of Physical RAM with /PAE enabled.
A 32bit Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition server can address 64GB of Physical RAM with /PAE enabled.
A 64bit x64 Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Server 2003 OS can address 128GB of RAM.
A 64bit ia64 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition or Datacenter Edition server can address 1TB of RAM.
Remember that running processes do not understand RAM, they only understand their Virtual Address Space assigned to them by the kernel memory manager. The memory manager then decides what portions of that Virtual Address Space get mapped into physical RAM, and what portions go into virtual memory (the paging file).
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I had similar issue (a while back) when bigger HD start to come out. BIOS can only see so much of HD (and BIOS will detect wrong size of HD). Windows however will see it as it is and will let me use all of it as i want (single / multiple partition).
I think its the same case with RAM, it may not detect it all - but windows works too closely with actual hardware and has its own ways to work around those limitations.
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Windows XP supports upto 3.7 GB RAM :rolleyes: Not 4 unless you will work in PAE modus :http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555223/
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Thanks guys for the help. I enabled 'Remapping of RAM' on motherboard and motherboard is showing 4GB RAM available. Also now XP 64 is showing 4GB as well. Before it was 3GB only. I believe dutchpaki is right XP 32-bit will not recognize more than 3.7GB.
Now I need to know how to permenantly enable XP Pro x64 version :o