On Mar 21, 2000 at 22:51, Philip S Tellis wrote:
>Guys, if I wanted to go in for an AMD processor based system, what would
>you suggest. Not high end, just something that will run the basic apps, a
>window manager, email & web, graphics and multimedia.
AMD K6-2, I think 450-500 is available. Beware: If you're planning on
anything less than Windows 98 (Linux is more), then you need a patch
(freely available on web, or I can mail it to you) but the patch only
works on win95 OSR2. IIRC win98 doesn't need the patch, but icbw.
>What processor, RAM, HDD, Display card? Printer - HP 610 (old one) good
>enough? Colour not needed.
As someone said, shouldn't skimp on RAM. 64 is what I have, getting
middle-end now.
HDD: 17GB sounds nice, but if you want any redundancy, 2-3 8 GBs are
nicer. Of course, if you really want redundancy and have the cash, go for
RAID5.
Display... not much help. I have ATI rage Pro, no complaints... oh wait, I
have a problem displaying jpegs in console svga mode. Looks like a sofware
thing, though (zgv 5.0).
Printer. Dot matrix will do, depends what you want.
>These things must be MS compatible.
Boggle.
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