Tuesday, December 20, 2005, 9:56:47 PM, you wrote: > I'm looking for a new PC and need to buy in this > week end !!
With all the exclamation points!!!! I assume you are in a BIG HURRY!!!!! In my opinion, this is a recipe for disaster. If I was in the market for a computer, I would make sure I knew what I was doing first, no matter how long it took, before I threw even a single dollar (or yuen, or rupee, etc.) at the project. > Can any one suggest a good configuration If u had > already experienced ??? > Looking for dual boot working - Win XP + Linux I have never messed with Windows XP, so I know nothing about it. > Processor - > Mother board - > Display to get good resolution for my brother's PC > Games - > RAM - > HDD - > Mouse - > Monitor - I have 15" Samsung Monitor > CDROM - I have Combo (CD R/W + DVD R) > FDD - I have one Are you building a computer, or purchasing a computer? Personally, I build, so I have no recent knowledge of pre-built machines. What will work best for you, depends on what you actually plan on doing with the machine. What will work well for a gaming box, or a business application box, will be very different, than what will make a good 24/7 Internet website server. 'Linux' is a generic term... some Linux distributions support some hardware, and not other hardware. I would decide what Linux distro I was planning on using first, and then see what hardware it supported, before buying anything. In my experience, mainboards with Via chipsets are more Linux-friendly than mainboards with other chipsets. I like MSI boards, but also run Soyo and Intel boards. I like Seagate SCSI hard drives (SCA), but they are pretty expensive, and require SCSI backplanes. I like server-grade internals, like registered RAM and especially registered RDRAM (again... expensive), and Xeon processors (I like Opteron, too, but can't afford them <g>) I like rackmount cases, so I can stack them in a Cisco rack., along with 19" network hub and KVM switch, and UPS, for a nice, tidy, organised setup. I also like hot-swap, front-loading hard drive cages, so I can swap hard drives without opening up the case, and screwing around. There are a few images of my current set-up, at the beginning of the build process, at: http://www.robertwittig.com/temp/Rack1.jpg http://www.robertwittig.com/temp/Rack2.jpg http://www.robertwittig.com/temp/Rack3.jpg http://www.robertwittig.com/temp/Rack4.jpg http://www.robertwittig.com/temp/Rack5.jpg http://www.robertwittig.com/temp/Rack6.jpg http://www.robertwittig.com/temp/Rack7.jpg In my own life, whenever I have been in a BIG HURRY!!! ...I have invariably wound up wasting a lot of money, buying stuff I didn't need, or want, or couldn't use, or didn't even work at all. -wittig website: http://www.robertwittig.com/ . ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
