If you intend to invest in new computers to run PC-Topp it clearly makes sense to buy well equipped, state of the art machines.
User demands and techical standards are subject to constant change and so, specific recommendations are prone to fast aging, too. We offer guidelines rather than prescriptions and we keep them as up to date as possible.
A Powerful Service PC Is All Important
Especially investing in the PC-Topp Service PC pays off very well, as its speed has great influence on the performance of the application on all client PCs. We recommend that you buy a high end desktop PC for this purpose. Dedicated and expensive server hardware is not required, even though that PC runs under a server operating system.
More and more desktop PCs come equipped with a Gigabit network card; this can have a nice performance benefit if the PC is connected to an inexpensive Gigabit switch.
Compared to the Service PC, the client PCs' performance doesn't need to be at the very high end of the scale. Well equipped mainstream PCs in the upper quality range will do fine.
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Buy High Performance Hardware
In general, we recommend the latest Core 2 Duo (clients and servers) or Xeon Quad Core CPUs (servers only) with hyper-threading technology.
Your new PCs should all be equipped with a Gigabit or 100 MBit network card.
Buy Fast Memory
High speed memory is of prime importance for your new PCs' performance. Don't be deceived by high Front Side Bus frequency - FSB speed is relevant only in connection with RAM speed: A fast FSB can only perform well if the memory it communicates with is adequately fast, too. So, make sure to have both high speed memory and high frequency FSB (800 MHz).
In terms of memory, we recommend DDR SDRAM which is available in a large number of different versions, ranging in speed from PC4200 memory (533 MHz) to PC2100 (266 MHz) and lower. Rambus RDRAM memory runs at 800 MHz and theoretically is the fastest version on the market, but the technology is being discontinued and thus cannot be our primary recommendation.
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