If we're talking planing for the future, why not go with an AMD64 or
dual Opteron setup? Also, I'm betting a hard disk upgrade would speed up
searches (e.g. Raid 0 w/ serial ATA). And no, I'm not a computer
builder, but I play one on TV ;)

My Friday the 13th 2cents.

developtrust wrote:

>Tom,
>I have one suggestion for Tom and the list.
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>Because hardware is so affordable now I think it will be a good investment
>to get a P4 - 3.4. At my computer builder a 2.4 chip costs $130 and a 3.4
>costs $485. As I see it the difference of $355 is an investment in the
>future and I'll bet someone on the list can even get these chips for even
>less.
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>I would be wiling to be one of the people who contributes to an upgraded
>chip. How many of us would be willing to support the fastest chip possible?
>The more of us that contribute to an upgrade the less it will be each of our
>pledges to help get this new system to be the best state of the art NOW and
>that will benefit us all.
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>My own computer has a P4- 2.4 and it is fast. A friend got the 2.8 and his
>computer is noticeable faster (to me) so I think the 3.4 would make our
>archive searches lightning faster.
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>William
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