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["Sergei D." <sj2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I have: I5/1333, I7/1600 and AMD X6 1090T/1600
> All of them satisfy me. But if I choose the next computer, I would,
> probably, take AMD X6 again.
> It has 6 "real" cores, good productivity and not a bad price.
>
> But I would suggest to take at least 2GB RAM / core.
>
> HDD 2TB, Videocard - not sure, but one of the cheapest, about EUR50.
Anton, thanks for advice!

For now my favorite is:

i7-950 proc,
6GB (3x2GB) memory,
GeForce GT220 1GB videocard

It is a work station (simulation with yade, openfoam and visualization 
with paraview) for next 3-5 years. Possible upgrade in this time is a 
more memory and a other video (and may be Tesla, but don't know now...)
I want GT220 now because of limited budget and I not sure of the need 
for more powerful cards (like GTX460) as well as GeForce VS Quadro (like 
Quadro FX580 or new Quadro 600). What about GeForce VS Quadro?
Now I have notebook with Penryn T8100 processor and Quadro NVS140M 
videocard. It allows me to comfortably simulate and visualize about 100k 
particles. But I want about 3x speedup... I have not watched at market 
long time, but now I haven't time to read many reviews and to choose...
What do you think about this choose?
Thanks.

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Best regards,
Sergei D.