Hi Peter, I am planing a similar system on my own, cheap and powerfull. Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3,0 GHz The Wolfdale series is still quite powerfull and you can get it cheap. With the right motherboard and fast RAM you'll get a nice system.
I want to try a motherboard that supports DDR3-1333, but i read DDR2 isn't so much slower. I want to try an Asrock P45DE3 (Sound, G-LAN, SATA2). This motherboard is able to be overclocked to 1600 Mhz RAM. Asrock is cheap and they are getting goods reviews at the moment. As video card i use a ATI Radeon 4650. This is enough power for my needs. I think you can choose what you like but check if the driver is good supported by the linux community. I hope this will help you a little. Cheers KrypTom 2011/2/21 Peter Nodiff <[email protected]> > > What hardware would run Ubuntu Studio fast? I don't wan't to buy an i7 or > Phenom II if a dual core or Athlon with 8gigs ram would run within 10% the > speed at half the price for parts! I want to be able to run 2 or 3 apps > simultaneously without slowing the PC down. I've built a PC before using a > good 650 watt power supply, multiple cooling fans, and a generic 512mb video > card. > > I am looking for a seasoned user to recommend what: CPU, motherboard/ram bus > speeds, amount of ram, which video card(s), and anything else to build a PC > from parts at Newegg or similar. > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > -- Thomas Wehlan Germaniastraße 6 47800 Krefeld Tel: +49 (0) 21 51 / 4826433 Mobil: +49 (0) 179 / 32 82 618 -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
