Originally Posted by LauerDO
I have a question for Sandeep.
I want to use my MU money to buy 6 new PC's to replace aging workstation clients.
I want the most kick-[censored], high end computers that will see me through the next 5 years.

What do you recommend?


Do you have any space constraints? If an average off the shelf desktop will fit, I'd recommend getting the MicroATX High Intel Build Configuration with the SSD. Those are more powerful than most people's servers on this board. They will be "kick-[censored]", very fast, and with incredible multitasking ability. You can probably get away with 64GB SSDs instead of the 128GBs if you store files on your server. The 128's are on 40 dollars off at the moment, so I'd probably get those. Peripherals are up to you. Maybe some new 24" Monitors and recycle the old monitors for dual screens on some of the computers. Whatever your staff likes best.

Also, since these intel motherboards have PXE, you can setup just one computer with all the programs and customizations and then deploy the image to the rest of the computers. Will save hours and hours setting up.

EDIT: I plan on doing this configuration as well as soon as I get MU check.

Last edited by Sandeep; 01/31/2012 11:24 PM.