Re: New desktop - advice for RDi

Chris is right about the extra video card. I added on to my system and
regularly drive 4 monitors with it.

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chris Bipes
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 1:36 PM
To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] New desktop - advice for RDi

I am running an i5 with 8 GB RAM and a 250GB SSD on a laptop. Performs
great.

i5 will out perform the i3 as each core is running at the same time. With
Hyper threading, only one of the threads per core is active, the other is
staged and waiting on CPU.

Only thing I would add is put in a decent dual monitor graphics card.

Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 11:28 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: [PCTECH] New desktop - advice for RDi

All,

I am in the enviable position of getting a new desktop at work (since I'm on
XP).

There is no budget per se, but that does not mean I have carte blanche.
I'm thinking what will be the best bang for the buck. I use green screens,
RDI, Chrome (Google Apps for business), and Firefox, primarily.

It will be Win 7 64-bit. I'm thinking 8gb memory. i3 or i5 processor? i3
is dual-core with hyperthreading. i5 is quad-core without hyperthreading.

What about SSD instead of a hard drive? Anybody have experience here?
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