please critique this spec:
please bear in mind that the machine is primarily for vmware purposes for a dev environment to be used for certification purposes. i've gone for two hard drives and 4gb of ram in the first instance - one hard drive for the host os and another for guest os's. the intentions are to add an additional hard drive and another 4gb of ram in due course.
i've gone for the m-atx motherboard for the on-board graphics. i've also gone for the hdmi version of that motherboard as i will likely cascade this down to htpc duties in a few years time once i have replaced my crt tv. (my old athlon xp 3200 with 2gb ram is in the process of being cascaded down!)
i've been umming and ahhing between amd / intel for quite a while now, and i'm not averse to overclocking so if you can come up with more bang for the buck out of an overclocked intel machine then let me have your suggestions!
many thanks in advance.
edit: i ought to have mentioned that i already have keyboard, mouse, and tft. that said, these will only be used for initial setup as i plan to remote control everything from my laptop once i have the base o/s and drivers installed.
edit2: also, if you are able to come up with a more bang for the buck solution don't feel that you have to be tied to m-atx with onboard graphics - the case will take an atx board, and obviously being a vmware machine just lob in the cheapest graphics you can find so long as it's dedicated memory and not this hyper-memory rubbish that steals system memory!
please bear in mind that the machine is primarily for vmware purposes for a dev environment to be used for certification purposes. i've gone for two hard drives and 4gb of ram in the first instance - one hard drive for the host os and another for guest os's. the intentions are to add an additional hard drive and another 4gb of ram in due course.
i've gone for the m-atx motherboard for the on-board graphics. i've also gone for the hdmi version of that motherboard as i will likely cascade this down to htpc duties in a few years time once i have replaced my crt tv. (my old athlon xp 3200 with 2gb ram is in the process of being cascaded down!)
i've been umming and ahhing between amd / intel for quite a while now, and i'm not averse to overclocking so if you can come up with more bang for the buck out of an overclocked intel machine then let me have your suggestions!
many thanks in advance.
edit: i ought to have mentioned that i already have keyboard, mouse, and tft. that said, these will only be used for initial setup as i plan to remote control everything from my laptop once i have the base o/s and drivers installed.
edit2: also, if you are able to come up with a more bang for the buck solution don't feel that you have to be tied to m-atx with onboard graphics - the case will take an atx board, and obviously being a vmware machine just lob in the cheapest graphics you can find so long as it's dedicated memory and not this hyper-memory rubbish that steals system memory!
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