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Title: What new PC to use? Post by: vetch101 on Wednesday 24 October 2007, 08:41:00 pm Hi everyone,
I have been using EFW for a while on an extremely old and knackered pc... We are going to be upping our bandwidth, and I am worried that it will become the bottleneck for our internet connectivity. I am therefore going to a new PC for EFW. I have a quad gigabit PCI-E Ethernet card which works with a standard Red Hat 4.4 (and presumably 5.0) install using E1000 drivers. I am looking at a Dell Optiplex 330, but I have had issues in the past when I tried to run this upgrade with Dell Dimension C521, Dimension E521 and a Vostro. Can anyone give me any ideas as to what I should be looking at to run it on, because so far I haven't been able to find any listings of recommended hardware. Any thoughts? Jx Title: Re: What new PC to use? Post by: sunblast on Monday 05 May 2008, 07:29:10 am I guess every newer hardware should be supported. Just recalling the hardware specs:
1,0GhZ Processor 512 MB RAM I always thought of buying those small via embedded boards: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=490 Seems just fitting 1,5Ghz and a maximal amount of 1G RAM. Only drawback on those is they mostly contain only one Network interface. But I'm sure i found one with two allready attached. Else look for one with PCI slot and add a quad network if. |