On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 2:14 PM, John Mort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's pretty much what I'm doing, but like I said, it's been awhile > for me so I figured if I threw my list out there someone could warn me > if Corsair make bad RAM or Gigabyte make bad motherboards, or if > LITE-ON optical drives flat out refuse to run on linux. Just any of > that reputation-based info I've missed out on in my financial > inability to keep up in the hardware game. ;-) > > I'm seeing "List Details" and nothing else basically at that link in your previous post, which for some reason required me to log in to my Newegg account. None of those brands raise any flags to me (I've had several good Lite-on optical drives), but the thing to worry about is what kind of RAM the board supports. Brand to brand isn't the issue so much as size limitations, frequency limitations, etc. It's the trickiest part of building your own computer, but carefully checking the specs should give you the answer easily enough. -Jay _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 5 - Wearable Linux Computing Apr 2 - Building a Kernel the Debian / Ubuntu way May 7 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux Jun 4 - TBD Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative)
