Let's play THE PRICE IS RIGHT !!!

[lahabiel]

ATTENTION COMPUTER FOLKSI have a game for you. Suppose you landed a mini-grant to do math research, and must buy computing capability for a research assistant, and after a few months he turns in his work and the hardware to you, and the technology is all yours after that. Help me out here

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[c0nsumer]

lazyweb!

[pabsungenis]

Hm. I usually suggest going through NewEgg.com since they have the best prices for the power.

You'll want Quad Core with a good cache since you're going to not only be crunching numbers, but twisting and breaking them as well. this is a pretty good place to start, especially because NewEgg is having a bundle special on motherboards with it. If you shop around and find the OEM version of the chip or something similar, it will be even cheaper

[ivynova]

I second NewEgg.com. Good deals over there.

[c0nsumer]

Also, since he's not a computer maintenance type person, he should probably go with something that comes with a warranty for when parts fail.