I make my choices based on market price -- I'm not willing to spend more than $100 on any component except RAM, so I put together a system based on the best quality I can get. Whatever leftover budget there is goes into RAM, because you can never have too much.
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 14:58, Philip Webb wrote: > 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? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html
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