At 22:27 10/10/2008, you wrote: >On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:42:03 +0100 >David Rozzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I bought this [1] Barebones bundle from Novatech almost 2 weeks ago, > > not had any issues with it, installed Opensuse11.0 64bit on it > > without any problems at all. It uses the MSI K9N6PGM2-V motherboard > > [2] which is 24.4cm (9.6") X 20.5cm (8"), so not quite as big as the > > one you have now. Novatech also sell the motherboard separately [3] > > or as a motherboard bundle with processor & RAM [4] > > > [4] http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?MBB-A502M > >That bundle looks about the right price but will have to consult the >accountant first :-) > >It will eventually need a PCI Express graphics card I guess but with 2 >pci slots I can still use the advansys scsi card I need for my scanner >and a PCI graphics card to get me going.
I expect the pci graphics card would be worse than on board gfx nowadays particularly since newish motherboards have to support gfx heavy vista premium. I bought a gigabyte ga-ep35c-ds3r with quad core in the last two weeks but the ide port has been a real pain. It wouild only pick up one hard drive the slave it didnt like nor a optical drive either. On the windows side the drivers installation software didnt like xp sp3. This motherboard has been quite a pain really but now its working its nice enough. Almost all the motherboards i could find have only 1 ide port which could mess things up if you get some weird config error like i did. Also if you have 3 ide devices you will have to get a pata to sata adaptor to use it. Hope that helps, Martin N -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
