[geeks] Windows 7 Workstation recommendations
Dr Robert Pasken
rpasken at eas.slu.edu
Wed Sep 7 09:28:36 CDT 2011
I have have used Rave for a long time (Back when sparcstation 2's were hot
machines). They are a good bunch of people to work with.
Cheers
RWP
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Andrew Meyer wrote:
> I have had great luck with a company called RAVE Computers, based out of
> Sterling Heights, MI. They are pretty much the best compromise between
> BYOB and prebuilt; they are more than willing to build nearly any
> configuration you want, have a fantastic warranty system, and have
> excellent pricing--we ordered several boxes with i7-960 quads, 6GB
> DDR3-1333, 500GB primary, 2TB RAID1, NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti graphics,
> quad-port Intel gigabit NIC, and Win7x64 Pro, and the total per machine
> was only around US$2200 or so.
>
> We use varying machines from RAVE in industrial machine vision
> applications, and as such expect, and have seen, very reasonable
> runtimes and longevity--the only reason so far we have had to pull an
> existing box was for a software upgrade that needed more hardware than
> the six-year-old box could sustain.
>
> If I remember correctly, they do business outside the US as well, which
> is why I bring them up. Give them a call and see if they can do anything
> for you.
>
> --
> Andrew G. Meyer
> <agmlego at gmail.com>
>
> If there are two or more ways to do something,
> and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe,
> then someone will do it.
> --Edward A. Murphy, Jr., 1949
>
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