Well, I am buying a new computer for my college son, since he says it hurts his back to carry his laptop back and forth to school (he has to walk 4 or 5 city blocks). So, I am bidding on the following machine on eBay. It sounds nice, but I would like someone to explain a couple of items to me.
======New fancy computer specifications================= Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz 533 MHz System Bus Speed Socket 478 Hyper Pipelined Technology NEW 512k Advanced L2 Advanced Transfer Cache!! 128 Bit Enhanced Floating Point Unit Advanced Dynamic Execution Motherboard Pentium 4 Motherboard SiS� 645DX & SiS� 962L chipset Integrated USB 2.0 ATX P4S5A/DX Motherboard 2 DDR Slots, 2 SDRAM Slots, UDMA 100 2 USB Ports in Back, 2 USB Ports in Front 1 Parallel/Printer Port, 2 Serial Ports USB 2.0 Ready! Memory 512MB PC2700 DDR RAM 333MHz Lifetime Warranty 168-Pin DIMM ===========End of new fancy computer specifications==================== 1. How do they gave a bus speed of 533 (or is that a clock speed?). They seem to be taking the 133 bus speed and multiplying it by 4. What's going on? 2. What's with this DDR RAM 333 MHz stuff. 3. They mention, somewhere, chip drivers supplied by SiS for windows XP. Why are they needed? I have lost touch with the leading edge$$ of desktop computer technology, ever since getting children. I am asking these question in part because I would like to know if the "advanced" features of this computer can be used in linux. Most of my computers in the house are ancient AT boxes running linux (I have one Athlon Firebird, the rest are made from scraps.) I have given up the idea of trying to buy AT motherboards and will replace some of these boxes soon. I might try getting more of these great sounding computers if they can run linux effectively. Thanks, Joel _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
