painful noises in the box, a 3-yr-old CPU (Celeron 466) & extra income (grin)
have brought me to the point of looking at buying a faster CPU
& an associated motherboard & upto-date memory. however,
Mandrake's & Redhat's compatibility listings offer little advice
& a review of the latest Pentium + m/board is slightly disturbing:
http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1610236&mode=thread .
the current choice is:
(1) Pentium 4 , 2.4 GHz , 533 MHz FSB +
ASUS P4SDX , 400/533 MHz FSB , dual-channel DDR333 memory , AGP 8x +
PC-2700 DDR333 memory ( 2 x 256 MB ) ;
(2) Pentium 4 , 2.4 GHz , 800 MHz FSB +
ASUS P4P800-DLX , 800 MHz FSB , dual-channel DDR400 memory , AGP 8x +
KingMax PC-3200 DDR400 memory ( 2 x 256 MB ) .
i intend to re-use my present HDD (Quantum Fireball, 7200 rpm , 15 GB ),
which has dual-boot Mdk 9.0rc1 & Win98 systems (the latter rarely used);
also the AOpen GeForce2 graphics card & the PPPoE card for broadband.
i have downloaded Mdk 9.1 , in case i need to re-install on the new box
& anyway to install in the near future even if all goes well.
my worry is that even Mdk 9.1 won't boot on the new hardware.
i realise the hardware above mb overkill, as i don't do sound or video
& the CPU weight of KDE is not an everyday problem, as i use Xfce.
however, i'm not a h/ware junkie & want something which will last 3 - 5 yrs
& i do compile programs from time to time & other CPU-intensive tasks.
does anyone have any experience to share or problems to warn about?
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