I am currently running SuSE v9.3 on an old, slow 32bit CPU and am contemplating several upgrades in sequence. I would appreciate some advise as I am definitely not a hardware person and primarily run other folks scientific software (I have a research program in computational chemistry) rather than write my own.
The CPU I'm looking at is the AMD Athlon 64 3500+. The motherboard is a MSI K9N Neo-F, MS-7260 Ver 1.0 K9N nForce 550 (I don't know anything about hardware, but I can copy a label). The motherboard only has one PCI slot for a master and a slave. My current linux box has 3 HD's, but I'm prepared to give one up (keep it as a spare for my Win XP machine). There are 4 SATA connections, but I know nothing about them. I presume that any hard drive connected to one of those must be a SATA HD, or is there some sort of adapter? Also, what about DC/DVD drive how would that be connected? I have an old CD drive on the linux box now, but am willing to upgrade it to a DVD. Sorry to have asked so many low level questions, but, as I said, I'm not a hardware person. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
