I'm looking for a new (or possibly used) desktop machine, probably toward the low end of the price spectrum. Does anyone have suggestions for hardware or San Diego area retailers? Links or Google search ideas are also welcome.
Chips and Memory is advertising machines with Asus M2N-MX SE motherboards. Are these desirable or troublesome? I'll probably be installing Ubuntu or Debian. MS Windows will not be present. It's important for the machine to run fairly quietly in room temperatures up to about 90 degrees F (32 degrees C). Highly CPU-intensive jobs will be run occasionally, but small speed improvements are not worth significant money to me. These jobs usually access memory in unpredictable ways, so caching is less effective than usual. The existing machine, with a 1.4 GHz Athlon processor, is adequate, but I presume much greater speed is available cheaply. Video performance and HD size and performance are especially UNimportant. Thanks Stewart Strait -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
