buying a machine from a vendor can yield similar results as building your own some times, you just need to catch good special
but that really depends on the person making the decisions
if you...

he does not want to build his own
and i don't think tech support will be able to help him much anyway
he will be using linux on

thermal paste just heps fill in the air gaps between the CPU and heatsink allowing more heat to come through to be cooled off
changing brands/types of paste at this point will have a minimal effect...

Render farm machines X 5 (late 2004)
dual xeons 3.2 500fsb 2mb cache
12gb ecc registered ram
Quadro (well i cheated here a bit, gainward 4600 TI self modded and bios flashed to Quadro) :mrgreen: ...

i've built all of my machines
purchasing something that level would cost me around 8,000-10,000 from ibm/dell

however this one isn't for me
for a friend
all tho hes proficient with the software...

not sure about that because waaay back it used to be used for things other than floppy

don't remember what FDD stands for tho
any ideas?

SCSI = small computer system interface, a parallel connection
its just a different connection type, not common for PC floppy drives

PCs usually use ata/atapi, a serial based connection
with...

this seems to be the closest place to post this i guess
A friend is looking for a full out system
software and such not a major concern he will be loading Linux on it anyway

just wondering if...