[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes:
Personally I would go with spending more on a Core 2 Duo if I was
buying one, but I am not at the moment. :)
With what motherboard ?
And I would get a 7600GT rather than a 7300,
EN7600GT SILENT/2DHT/256M ?
or
EN7600GT/2DHT/256M ?
or
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 11:13:36PM -0700, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote:
With what motherboard ?
Well if I was building a really nice game machine I would get the Asus
Striker Extreme. But the Asus M2N32-SLI is a bit more sane. If I
decided that SLI was never going to be of interest, I would
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:51:56AM -0400 Lennart Sorensen said:
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:05:42AM +, Sam Varghese wrote:
The Core 2.
I am surprised if an Athlon 64 beat the Core 2 on video encoding.
Weird. What codec and encoder program
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:39:15AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:51:56AM -0400 Lennart Sorensen said:
I have just seen many posts on this list where people ran memtest, found
nothing wrong, but eventually swapped out the ram and their problems
went away. memtest
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:05:42AM +, Sam Varghese wrote:
The Core 2.
I am surprised if an Athlon 64 beat the Core 2 on video encoding.
Weird. What codec and encoder program managed that?
It's a little fan next to the graphics chip, comes on the motherboard.
Once it starts making a
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:05:24PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
I don't see anything that would be inherently a no-go with linux but I
do know from reading this list that wifi is interesting. make sure its
covered.
I didn't see wifi on the list.
IIRC, the difference between M2N-SLI
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:20:35AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
IIRC, the difference between M2N-SLI Deluxe and the M2N32-SLI Deluxe is
that the 32 includes wifi onboard.
The M2N32-SLI is an nforce 590, while the M2N-SLI is a 570. That means
the 32 has dual 16x slots, while the other
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:03:40PM -0400, Robert Isaac wrote:
If you go the Dell route be sure to pick the Ubuntu pre-installed
choice. It may be Ubuntu, but it is the GNU/Linux sale that counts.
That particular offer comes only with xp home (not vista, and xp pro is
an add on cost). I think
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:15:06PM +0200, Gilles Sadowski wrote:
I'm also inquiring about hardware for a new system.
Based on previous posts (with some replacements for parts I didn't
readily found in the closest shop), here is my tentative list (with
alternative choices):
CPU
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:21:53PM -0500, Jaime Ochoa Malag?n wrote:
The RAM is very important take care of this...
True. So far I have been happy with Corsair, and OCZ. Certainly go for
a well known name brand.
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:02:02AM +, Sam Varghese wrote:
I have used both Intel and AMD dual-core and find AMD better for my work;
I'm basing this on one thing, the speed of processing video files.
Which intel? The P4 was a piece of [EMAIL PROTECTED] design wise. The Core 2
is
nothing
Of course you can get a stupid little Athlon 64 X2 3600+ system from
dell for $399CDN at the moment. Hard to beat that price/performance
ratio. Of course it is a Dell, so who knows... :)
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If you go the Dell route be sure to pick the Ubuntu pre-installed
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:09:22PM -0400 Lennart Sorensen said:
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:02:02AM +, Sam Varghese wrote:
I have used both Intel and AMD dual-core and find AMD better for my work;
I'm basing this on one thing, the speed of
Hello.
I'm also inquiring about hardware for a new system.
Based on previous posts (with some replacements for parts I didn't
readily found in the closest shop), here is my tentative list (with
alternative choices):
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
CPU AMD Athlon64 5000
RAM
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote:
I googled and found that Dell offers Dimension n Series E521.
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/e510_nseries?c=uscs=19l=ens=dhs~ck=mn
It comes with no Windows OS preinstalled. And Dell claims that it is
ready to work under linux.
Does anybody here
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:00:01PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:37:41PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote:
Are we talking about desktop workstations here? Forgive my ignorance,
but what on earth requires that much RAM? Video processing? I have 1 GB
in my desktop at the
Hi All!
I've been using HP Pavilion zv5260 as a desktop replacement for a while
and now decided to get a real desktop. I am not sure if I should build a
new box myself or buy a pre-built one. I need a home workstation that is
going to be used primarily for writing and debugging code, browsing
Alexandru:
I use to buy the components and assemble what I need.
There is guidance on internet, just choose a reliable
guidance. If you go through a reliable European
internet dealer you can save money and have just what
you need (and the latest - albeit latest on European
standard - components,
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:24:11PM -0700, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote:
Hi All!
I've been using HP Pavilion zv5260 as a desktop replacement for a while
and now decided to get a real desktop. I am not sure if I should build a
new box myself or buy a pre-built one. I need a home workstation that
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote:
Hi All!
I've been using HP Pavilion zv5260 as a desktop replacement for a while
and now decided to get a real desktop. I am not sure if I should build a
new box myself or buy a pre-built one. I need a home workstation that is
going to be used primarily for writing and
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:24:11PM -0700, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote:
Hi All!
I've been using HP Pavilion zv5260 as a desktop replacement for a while
and now decided to get a real desktop. I am not sure if I should build a
new box myself or buy a pre-built one. I need
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:24:07AM -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
Well ... I don't want to get into Intel vs. AMD (until the AMD Quad
Cores are out, anyhow) :). But I can't conceive of running a processor
that fast in Linux with only a GB of RAM, and I can't conceive of
getting only
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Well I would certainly prefer 2 or 4GB ram on a new system.
Are we talking about desktop workstations here? Forgive my ignorance,
but what on earth requires that much RAM? Video processing? I have 1 GB
in my desktop at the moment, and that's useful for when I'm
On May 22, 2007 02:37:41 pm Neil Gunton wrote:
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Well I would certainly prefer 2 or 4GB ram on a new system.
Are we talking about desktop workstations here? Forgive my ignorance,
but what on earth requires that much RAM? Video processing? I have 1 GB
in my desktop at
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:37:41PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote:
Are we talking about desktop workstations here? Forgive my ignorance,
but what on earth requires that much RAM? Video processing? I have 1 GB
in my desktop at the moment, and that's useful for when I'm running
VMWare, but that's
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