On Tuesday 28 December 2004 11:00, Jarrod Major wrote: > Hey Gang, > > I have been feeling the need to upgrade my machine at home. It has now > become imminent due to one of my Christmas presents (Doom 3). I am somewhat > out of the loop of late or at least I feel I have kind of lost track of > things. I am very happy with my AMD so I will most likely stick with them > for processor. I am seriously considering getting an Athlon 64. Does anyone > have any suggestions for this? Looking at Memory Express it seems that I > have a wide choice. Plus it's complicated by the socket type, it appears I > have a choice of socket 939 and 754, which is better? I have used ASUS > boards for most of my computers and wasn't planning on using anything > different this time around. I'm sure the guys at Memory Express would be > more than helpful in choosing an appropriate mobo. I would rather get a > board without the extras as I have decent sound, video and NIC cards > already. I have also been less than happy with the bundled hardware in any > case. > > Also, considering I will most likely be running a 64-bit processor, what > should I be looking at for distro? Do the current versions support 64-bit > out of the box? It looks like SuSE does, I'm not sure about the others. > > This is very frustrating, I have built several systems from the ground up > and for some reason this time around feels different.
Hey Jarrod, did you see this? http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Pogo-Linux-Altura64_Award_Story01.html Graham _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
