--- Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
I'm pretty shure that the diffirences between the two
is that the Athlon has a faster bus speed then the
durons, the durons are great chips though. My cousin
just upgraded his to a 800mhz duron and he loves it.
> 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?
Mine worked fine in Mandrake 7.1
> 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.
IMHO, get a geforce. There awesome cards and blazing
fast. Everyone that i have talked to loves them. Just
a little bit of info, Nvida just released a new video
card. I can't think of its name right now but if you
go to creative or nividas websites it will be there. I
dont know if it has linux drivers or not but people
are raving about how fast it is and about its great
price for its performance and ease of overclocking.
> 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.
>
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