Dear All, I'm thinking of building a new system, which I do relatively rarely. Since my kids are getting older, it would probably be good if it could play games now and in the future. I'm wondering if anyone who's looked into components recently has any advice.
I've done some quick searches online and found recommendations for, say, Intel Core i5-2500K processor and NVidea GTX 560 ti which seemed to be a good balance between price and power for the range that I'm looking in. I haven't gotten my brain around the choice of motherboards yet. Any recommendations out there for these or other components, either good brands or specific models? I'd also be interested in anyone who's had a good experience with companies that will do the assembly for you---I like the assembly, but it's hard with two kids and not a lot of time when they're not awake. I've always found NVidea more stable than ATI in Linux, but I don't know if that's true any more---I'd be interested in whether anyone had recent experience. As an aside, if there's anyone with an old Athlon 64 x2, dual core, socket 939 processor who'd like to unload it, I'd have an interest (but not enough of one to go on Amazon or eBay, it seems). Scott -- Scott Thatcher Associate Professor of Mathematics Truman State University thatc...@truman.edu
