Stewart C. Strait wrote:
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
If you're not going to build your own, perhaps wait for a Black Friday
deal or pick one of these,
http://www.chipsandmemory.com/newsystem.html. Most of them come without
Windows.
Brian
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