On 11/05/2009 12:59 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I guess that could be seen as a kind of spam. I hope not. > > Further, so far as googling this kind of help or info. There is so > damn much out there.. its too hard to tell what is good or even real. > > So here it is: > > I have a recently dead Intel P4 winxp box, I've got it completely > stipped dowm, mobo out etc. Its a mid tower antex box.. nice size and > fairly easy to work inside of.
One caution there -- newer computer hardware demands a great deal of power, and older power supplies may not be up to the task. Don't try to squeak by with a wimpy power supply. > > I thought maybe a mobo bundle would be a good starting place... I've been building my own for years. and the choice of motherboard has always been easy: I buy the mobo and CPU on sale that day at Fry's ;o) (Do you know Fry's?) But I buy the best RAM available because it's worth the few extra bucks. The latest and greatest new hardware may not be supported by any open source OS, so you may not want the latest hot mobo. I'd say avoid any mobo less that a year or so old. (The ones on sale at Fry's meet than criterion perfectly, as you'd expect.) I'm sure more advice will be forthcoming :o)
