On 2006 July 13 23:29, rikona wrote: > On Thursday, July 13, 2006, 3:14:36 PM, Paul Stejskal wrote: ... > Actually, I'm looking VERY specifically for MD2006 hardware. It would > seem as though the folks here have a lot of experience with hardware > that runs MD2006 well, and I was hoping to get H/W suggestions. ...
I'm running MD2006 on a homebuilt system: o Soyo KT-600 Dragon Plus motherboard, AMD socket A, Via KT600 chipset, SATA support, on-board audio, ethernet, usb, etc. o AMD Athlon XP 2200+ processor o NVidia Geforce FX 5200 video card It installed flawlessly, all the hardware was properly recognized and configured from the start. The SATA used to give me a problem under 10.1, forcing me to disable harddrake during boot or it would hang, but this is fixed in 2006. I don't have any SATA drives, so I can't say that it actually works, but it doesn't cause me any problems. I had heard, as someone else mentioned, that NVidia chipsets can be a problem under Linux (both SATA and the on-board ethernet), so I avoided them. Personally I prefer AMD - rooting for the underdog, avoiding monopolists, all that, not to mention that in recent times they've had superior technology for the money. If this is a system for an average user, go for an older generation of processors you'll save a lot of money with only a modest difference in performance. Even the older available processors are more than fast enough for typical work. My load average right now is 0.09. I rarely get anything close to 1. The newest processors are designed to run the newest abominations out of Redmond. Since Linux is so much more efficient (e.g. 7 times faster at starting a new process than XP, according to a recent study) and doesn't need all the overhead of virus scanners and such, the older ones do fine. I like to go for the near-end-of-life processors and motherboards, as I get some great discounts. That's why I went with a socket A. If I remember correctly, the motherboard cost me about $35, and the processor $78 about a year ago. The whole system cost me about $500, because I needed the case, power supply, hard drive, everything, and because I have to pay retail. I could have gotten a prebuilt machine for the same price, but then I know part of the price is the Microsoft tax, which I refuse to pay. If you can just put the new motherboard and processor in the same case with the same drive and power supply, you should be able to do it for $150-200 (these are Canadian prices, YMMV). -- Opinions are mine. Don't blame anyone else. Rely on them at your own risk. ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
