steve wrote, On 02/11/09 12:21:
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 12:05 +1300, Chris Downie wrote:
Is there any combination I should steer clear off regarding Linux
compatibility? My current Athlon/ASUS combination has played well for seven
years but five leaking capacitors has finally done it in. I am leaning
towards a dual-core Phenom II and sticking with a MB with Nvidia chipset.
Should I be leaning some other way.
Depends rather that you're looking to do. I think the core duo's are a
better vfm at the moment, but haven't looked for 6 months or so.
That's what I got... a low powered quad core to run plenty of VM's upon.
Agreed - whatever you get, make sure its got VT support.
Personally I'd stick with an intel E6300 or similar - go for 64 bit
install with 4 GB ram minimum and it should be fine.
Pretty much any motherboard works fine with linux these days. Most
driver problems come with bleeding edge new stuff, or cheap nasty items.
If you like the nvidia chipset then that's fine - but my preference I
wouldn't care either way.
However a 9400 nvidia graphics card is a nice spec and low price video
card. Again that depends on your level of Open Source requirement.
And a lot of it comes down to your budget.
--
Craig Falconer
