Hi,
I'm going to be building a new system sometime in the next month or
so. I don't need anything top of the line (1 GHz), just a quick,
affordable system.
Could you guys recommend anything under the following categories?
Motherboard & CPU - I usually stick to AMD. Now the Athlon and the
Duron are both out. What is the difference between the two (Duron
is almost half the price for the same speed). Anyone recommend a
motherboard brand?
Sound cards - I'm going to keep the SoundBlaster AWE64 in my old
system. What sound cards are recommended? Do the PCI SoundBlaster
Live's work well in Linux?
Video - I'm looking at the Matrox G400 multihead card so I can do a
dual headed display. I have a TNT2 card in my system now and it
works well. I'd like something that has open source drivers. I'm
not sure if Matrox does or not.
On the side question -- Can a digital optical output on a stereo CD
player be piped into a computer for the purpose of ripping tracks?
Say if you have a crappy CDR or something? Just curious what one
could use the digital optical output for.
Thanks,
Rob.
