Durons are ussually tagged as running as fast as the first generation of
Athlons. Anything like that is going to run any Unix like a bat out of
hell... Matrox rox; And it has the best X support of any card that I know
of including linux drivers from Matrox themselves. If you really want to
go low cost, Epox makes fantastic Super 7 boards and an AMD K6-2+ 400 or
500 is a really fast *nix box as well... My SB Live! is like butta', it
has great support for BSD and those drivers were ported from the Linux
drivers, so I assume the linux drivers are every bit as great.
That's my $.02
Tim
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Rob Hudson 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?
>
> 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.
>
>
