[Fwd: CCL:Short Budget]

[Arthur H. Edwards,1,505-853-6042,505-256-0834]

Eugene.Leitl at lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> From: "Familia Esguerra Neira" <esguerra at mentecolectiva.com>
> Subject: CCL:Short Budget
> To: chemistry at ccl.net
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> 
> Hello all,
> 
> 
> I would like to ask for your advice on buying a PC for running gaussian 98
> and gamess-us jobs under Slackware Linux 7.1. My budget is U$4000 and I
> have been looking at Dell computers for the fastest machine I can get with
> this money.
> 
> I am undecided on whether to buy a dual pentium III 933MHz or a single
> pentium IV 1.5 GHz processor both with 1Gb PC800 RDRAM; if any of you out
> there has any information as to which of this two options would work
> better, or other suggestion on how to invest my money in order to obtain
> the fastest performing machine I would greatly appreciate it.
> 
> Thanking your advice,
> 
> Mauricio Esguerra Neira
> Grupo de Quimica Teorica
> Universidad Nacional de Colombia
> 
> 
> 
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I'm running Guassian-98 and GAMESS-US (also GAMESS-UK). I'm using athlon 
750's that behave like intel's running at 1.15 times the clock speed. 
Price/performance dictatest that I use athlon's. By the way, I've been 
using Debian very successfully with these software packages.

Art Edwards