On Tue, November 20, 2007 12:37 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: > [snip] >> Google tells me that I might land MB and CPU for ~$100. That I can swing >> (I'll put the cats on ebay). > > You can get a brand new motherboard and CPU for less than that. Looking > in ComputorEdge shows several deals at about $85 for an AMD Sempron and > motherboard.
Oh no no no no ... we've played that game. I go get one and it doesn't work some way and you say "why did you buy _that_ one?!" I'm tired of that. And the "you just get this memory and that new HD and the other CPU" trick, and pretty soon I'm limping home down $250 and and Alex is getting a McDonald's Fun Meal toy for Christmas and Janet is packing to leave me. If you (or someone else) can't name an inexpensive MB that I can transfer memory and pvr-150s to that will work better out of the box, then to hell with it, I'm standing pat. I am NOT a HW guy, and I am quite tired of being dissed for not getting HW right. Let me enlarge. I have no intention of trying to become a HW guy. There's just too damn much in computing and I already have my own little areas of interest. I can carry the memory with me to the shop when I buy, and even I can recognize slots for the pvr-150s, but chipsets are a mystery to me, especially when you say things like "not all VIA chipsets are bad." Damn it, I want recommendations I can count on! To me, a chipset is either with ME or with the Terrorists. It's Good vs Evil, strictly Manachean. So that's your challenge. Name a chipset that will NEVER NEVER stab me in the back, but that I can find on a budget board. Or something else, but it must be absolute, no room for ignorance to lead to error. Because I have an abundance of ignorance. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
