rikona wrote:
One of the ladies I converted to MDV has what looks like a mobo
failure. Won't boot anything, and has lots of error messages re pci,
usb, disks, etc. She has come to really like MD2006. I'm VERY busy, so
I suggested she consider buying an inexpensive Win box as a
replacement, and she made it clear she does NOT want Win anymore now
that she has become familiar with MD. With her usual charm, she
convinced me to build her another comp. She likes MD enough to do a
major upgrade - mobo/cpu/memory/video, and add a dvd burner [she had a
cd burner before], larger disk [SATAs work well??], and perhaps even a
new 'nicer looking' case [the old one IS a bit junky].
I'd like to get the stuff locally since she is a bit anxious to have a
replacement, and I'm quite short of time. I'd appreciate any
suggestions for mobo/cpu/memory/video [and/or chipset] that I can just
'drop in' and have it work [it will be a new install]. This is NOT a
gaming machine, so it need not have the sometimes-messy driver issues
that seem to cause problems. Just want something easy, solid,
reliable, and trouble free. Cost is a big issue also. I'm thinking a
low end 64 bit cpu might be best for cost/performance/best-future
tradeoff, but please tell me if this is not a good approach.
I've checked the MD sites for some hardware suggestions, but would
like to find others that might be more easily obtained locally [Asus,
Abit, ECS come to mind]. If you know of some current hardware combos
that work well with MD2006, and don't need extra tweaks or drivers,
please let me know. Also, if you know of some stuff that HAS problems,
please tell me so I can avoid it.
Thanks VERY much, from both of us. :-)
My 2 cents:
If you go AMD, get a NF4 board (socket 939) or the NVidia Socket AM2
based board. That's your best bet. Intel might work best when Conroe
comes out and you get a good 775 Intel mobo but I"m not sure on those
motherboards. As far as recommendations for a setup, get a Conroe
(Intel's A64 killer). It can whoop it very nicely and is due out very
soon. If you wanna stick AMD, on irc.freenode.net there are several
people who might be able to help. I know of a guy who runs Gentoo on an
AMD 64 bit setup and there's a guy in #mandriva that overclocked his A64
decently. Maybe they can help too as this is a Mandriva mailing list not
a hardware help lol.
Paul
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