On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Craig Falconer <[email protected]> wrote: > steve wrote, On 02/11/09 12:21: >> >> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 12:05 +1300, Chris Downie wrote: >>> >>> Is there any combination I should steer clear off regarding Linux >>> compatibility? My current Athlon/ASUS combination has played well for >>> seven >>> years but five leaking capacitors has finally done it in. I am leaning >>> towards a dual-core Phenom II and sticking with a MB with Nvidia chipset. >>> Should I be leaning some other way. > >> Depends rather that you're looking to do. I think the core duo's are a >> better vfm at the moment, but haven't looked for 6 months or so. That's >> what I got... a low powered quad core to run plenty of VM's upon. > > Agreed - whatever you get, make sure its got VT support. > Personally I'd stick with an intel E6300 or similar - go for 64 bit install > with 4 GB ram minimum and it should be fine. > > Pretty much any motherboard works fine with linux these days. Most driver > problems come with bleeding edge new stuff, or cheap nasty items. > > If you like the nvidia chipset then that's fine - but my preference I > wouldn't care either way. > > However a 9400 nvidia graphics card is a nice spec and low price video card. > Again that depends on your level of Open Source requirement. > > And a lot of it comes down to your budget.
IMHO if you want an intel processor go for an intel chipset, they are very well supported. Couple that with a nVidia grahics card and you get the advantages of accelerated hardware for video playback.
