This is not a gaming computer, or an office system — it is a software development workstation, with support for various programming, scientific, and mathematical packages. This article explains the choices I made and describes the process of getting the system up and running.

The only thing preventing this beauty from becoming a gaming machine is the slowass video card. Otherwise you do have a gaming machine whether you play games or not. Too bad he went with the slowest Opterons available. I think if that was going to be the case he might have been better off going with the fastest Athlon MPs. Oh well.

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