On Tuesday 04 January 2005 08:17 am, K. Shantanu wrote: > Can someone recommend a processor which is not costly > (AMD??) with motherboard, RAM and cabinet with approximate prices > and which I can use for Linux? I already have a monitor, k/bs and a > few mice. I will mostly probably using Mandrake/SuSE and maybe a > couple of BSDs.
Athlon / Sempron processors give you better bang for the buck. And the 32-bit Athlons are very cost-effective these days as AMD is concentrating on its Athlon64 processor line. One of my boxes is an Athlon 1800XP on a VIA KT333 chipset based ASUS board... stable and fast. You could probably buy a much faster processor and a newer VIA chipset based motherboard than what I've got. NVidia nForce chipset based motherboards are supposed to be marginally better performers than their equivalent VIA chipset counterparts [according to reviews that I've read on hardware review sites]. However, you may have to use proprietary binary-only drivers for the nForce motherboard integrated ethernet and sound card. If that isn't a problem for you, you should also consider an nForce chipset based motherboard. Regards, Vinu.
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