Hi
Sumit Bidani wrote:
> AMD Athlon 1G
> M'board ASUS A7V (what model?)
> 128M Symtronics SDRAM (or should i get RDRAM ?)
Get DDR if you can afford that. SDRAM should be perfectly fine but DDR is a
performance boost....
> Hard Disk 20G Samsung (Or is there any lin compatible
> 40G model)
If possible make that Seagate/Quantum/IBM. AFAIK, samsung was never popular for
speeds....
> ? AGP (Whoopeee I Don't Know?)
Neither me....;-).
> ? Sound Card
Almost all of them are fine. I recommend Yamaha Mercury. I have that one and
rocks under ALSA.(Though I use Sis on board regularly...)
> The confusing part is that engineers tell me
> that AMD comes with its own m'board, to what extent is
> that true and are they lin-friendly boards.
That's partially true. Not many chipsets are available for Athlon. But VIA/ASUS
are definitely available plus AMD's own chipset is also available. AFAIK they
don't make much performance difference for ordinary tasks. Gaming and multimedia
editing not included in that.
Get DDR and a real fast IDE disk is my recommendation....
Shridhar
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