Yet Another Harware Question

[Bill Horne]

Thanks for reading this. I have Yet Another Hardware Question.

I know this has been covered, but bear with me. Here's your chance to 
climb on the soapbox ;-J.

The situation:

* Client is doing Autocad in a production environment
* There's an HP plotter, plus more hardware to be added.
* The poor soul is using a pentium II running at 600 MHz with a 100 MHz 
bus an 128 MB of ram - you can here the disk
    grind from two doors down.
* The firm has decided to update their infrastructure.

Now, here's your chance: what would be your "dream" machine for a CAD 
workstation? (Sorry, it has to be Autocad, all the usual reasons apply).

* Would you go to a off-the-shelf game engine? Why or why not?
* OEM or whitebox? Why?
* SCSI or SATA? Reasons?
* Is a 400 MHz bus OK, or would you reach higher? Why?
* What about the video card? Is a high-end gaming card the best there is 
for CAD?

All opinions welcome. TIA.

Bill


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