New MB recommendations

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> I think it's time to get a faster box 'cause I have some linux CAD apps
> that want more speed.  Towers are clearly cheaper than laptops.  I have
> SCSI drives on my present Pentium II box.  Does it make sense to try to
> get a fancy new fast MB, and attempt to plug in these drives or is this
> silly?

Are you sure that your CAD apps are hitting a bottleneck in the CPU/disk 
rather than the GPU?

What makes sense is to determine where the bottleneck is, and addressing 
it.  Granted, a PII is pretty ancient these days, so almost anything sold 
in the past year is going to be dramatically more performant.

Note, that is the SCSI drives are bootable, you'll need the same 
controller, or a kernel with support for the new controller.

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