I second Greg's fine advice- Linux hardware compatibily an stability is generally one generation behind. And, I always recommend AMD over Intel for both value and performance. I've got two VIA kt333 boards, an ABIT, and an MSI, with Athlon xp thoroughbred "B" cpus, and both have been flawless performers with Linux. The only problems I've ever had were self-inflicted.
Robert Crawford n Monday 09 June 2003 19:50, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Monday 09 June 2003 05:58 pm, Philip Webb wrote: > > painful noises in the box, a 3-yr-old CPU (Celeron 466) & extra income > > (grin) have brought me to the point of looking at buying a faster CPU > > & an associated motherboard & upto-date memory. however, > > Mandrake's & Redhat's compatibility listings offer little advice > > & a review of the latest Pentium + m/board is slightly disturbing: > > http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1610236&mode=thread > > . > > That's one of the problems with running bleeding edge hardware on Linux. I > don't think you'll ever see immediate support for these new chipsets. Same > thing happened to me with my KT400 board. 9.0 had problems with it, but > 9.1 works awesome. It;s gonna take one release cycle for the kernel to > catch up > > > the current choice is: > > > > (1) Pentium 4 , 2.4 GHz , 533 MHz FSB + > > ASUS P4SDX , 400/533 MHz FSB , dual-channel DDR333 memory , AGP 8x + > > PC-2700 DDR333 memory ( 2 x 256 MB ) ; > > > > (2) Pentium 4 , 2.4 GHz , 800 MHz FSB + > > ASUS P4P800-DLX , 800 MHz FSB , dual-channel DDR400 memory , AGP 8x > > + KingMax PC-3200 DDR400 memory ( 2 x 256 MB ) . > > No Intel for me man. Too expensive and they don't support Linux like they > should. Did you hear about the centrino crap. They basically said they > were building drivers but they wouldn't release becuse there was no demand. > How the fsck do they know there is no demand before the thing comes out. > I personally smell MS all over that one. > > > i intend to re-use my present HDD (Quantum Fireball, 7200 rpm , 15 GB ), > > which has dual-boot Mdk 9.0rc1 & Win98 systems (the latter rarely used); > > also the AOpen GeForce2 graphics card & the PPPoE card for broadband. > > i have downloaded Mdk 9.1 , in case i need to re-install on the new box > > & anyway to install in the near future even if all goes well. > > I just got a new Hitachi 180GXP on a trade-in for a failed IBM 60GXP and it > is 25% faster than the old one, and the difference was very noticeable. I > think you'll notice far more difference in speed from having a faster hard > drive than you will from having a faster processor. > > > my worry is that even Mdk 9.1 won't boot on the new hardware. > > i realise the hardware above mb overkill, as i don't do sound or video > > & the CPU weight of KDE is not an everyday problem, as i use Xfce. > > however, i'm not a h/ware junkie & want something which will last 3 - 5 > > yrs & i do compile programs from time to time & other CPU-intensive > > tasks. > > > > does anyone have any experience to share or problems to warn about? > > You could do what I did with my KT400. I bought before 9.1 came out even > though I knew it didn't work on 9.0 because I wanted to test the 9.1 betas > on it and make sure 9.1 worked properly. Buy it, help test Cooker and 9.2 > during beta and don't plan on actually using it until 9.2 comes out. > You'll have a much better chance to make sure it works well by doing that.
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