dene maxwell wrote:
Hi Paul,
The only reason I've spec'd Intel is that I'm familiar with the
processor set. ie what's crippled and what's not.
I am quite open to AMD processors or any others that maybe suggested as
long as the recommendation is backed up by proven compatibility with FG.
I will amend my spec to include AMD Sempron processors, what would be
the minimum model of sempron you would consider?
If you're an Intel fan then you'll have to get something a lot slower
because
of the price difference but I can guarentee you that a Sempron 2400+
will be
a *lot* faster than PIII clocked at less that 1 GHz. Even the old,
budget,
AMD Durons gave the PIII's a run for their money.
Paul
As for building it myself, yes i'm sure a could bolt the bits together
and have fun doing it. Prebuilt has the advantage that, from the right
supplier, it's pretested for compatibility and conflicts and the bios is
optimised for the hardware configuration.
Dene
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If you ever had the displeasure of dealing with suppliers, you'd know
most talk total tummy rot, so building it yourself isn't a bad idea,
especially as the typical ignoramous will tell you that any problems
were due to damage caused by Linux - I've had this and also read many
such stories on the net. You can always get the latest BIOS and update
it. Apart from some Winmodems there are no real hardware compatibility
issues. Booting a Knoppix CD in any x86 box/laptop, you'll see what I
mean and as a matter of fact Knoppix is well known for recovering files
from trashed Windows boxes. I've also used it to troubleshoot a problem
when Windows XP was unable to connect via a cable modem, knoppix booted
up and was straight in, so I was able to get the setup details to cross
check with XP. Just before Christmas I went with a relative to purchase
a Packard Bell box based on low price with reasonable features and as it
was for a TOTAL novice, I whipped the cables off the 80G XP HD,
connected them up to a spare 80G I had, installed SuSE 10.0 and he is up
using skype, kmail, surfing the net and listening to music on cable
broadband shared with his daughter who uses XP and is racked with
mal/spy/skunk-ware that gets through whatever defences you throw at it.
Then there was another one I had to look at where Windows update failed,
restored the files and left the box in a trashed state, needing a CD
restore by me the fool left to do it.
Apologies for the digression, but Linux is pretty hardware agnostic on
PC's (I do it all the time), Mac's, SPARC (done that), mainframes (done
that) and lots more.
Regards
Sid.
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Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support
Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
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