OK Tom, so you favour Via and AMD, but if money is not in itself a particular problem, though everything has to be reasonably equal, and relative, what would be the best combination of mobo cpu and video card for good graphics, speed and efficiency of FSB etc in Linux, and why ?
John
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Asus P4T533-C Mobo or mine the P4C800 DX, 2.5ghz cpu *best bang for buck*, plus all this has room to upgrade. Grafx: Nvidia or ATI doesn't matter. If you want (like me) bleeding edge cause you game a radeon 9700 Pro or 9800Pro. Either will be fine but 3d for Linux gaming won't work well yet. For windows, its fine if you dual boot. Support for linux with these components is very good...all those companies provide linux only drivers & some amount of tech support in their forums & such. I hate AMD b/c I don't find their stuff stable & it tends to overheat. Just my opinion mind you. And i've seen nothing but problems with VIA's last chipsets...for the PIII's the ViA's rocked. For a P4 I won't trust them. Again, IMO. No humbling though...sorry... i gave it up for Lent. :D
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