> Von: Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Datum: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:12:28 +0800 > > On 10/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > See an earlier post. I upgraded to an AMD64 by > > mistake. I was pleasantly surprised that the Sempron > > 2500+ was actually compiling source packages 3x faster > > than my Duron 800Mhz. I thought the 2500 was pure > > marketing hype. > > Great! What motherboard are you using? It's an ECS K8M800-M2, a micro-ATX, socket 754 board with onboard unichrome video that only works as far as I can tell under the VESA XOrg driver. There's ongoing development, however, at http://unichrome.sf.net. > > Onboard video (VIA/Savage) has always been a problem for > > me. Twice I wound up buying an ATI card (Radeon VE/7000 > > and Mach64). I'm now planning to go for a Radeon 9250. > > So you manage to set up ATI cards properly? I read the > advice here and elsewhere, and went for the Radeon 9250's > competitor - GeForce FX 5500 (manufactured by Gainward) > for my present Socket 478 rig. I'm not a fragfreak. But I find the Radeon 7000 to be well supported by current Debian Xorg packages. At least they're good enough for for my favorite games: Planet Penguin Racer (aka Tuxracer), Crack Attack, and NeverBall. In the past I had to install some unofficial packages (from a Debian developer). > Only problem so far with the 'nvidia' binary driver is > that it's wiped out whenever your system auto-updates the > kernel. > > > DMA 133 is fast enough for my 4x DVD writing and TV > > capture sessions (the only tasks where hard drive speed > > is critical for me). How much faster is SATA II say from > > SATA I? I've read that people who really want > > performance will settle for nothing less than a SCSI. > > Do you have more than one drive? I have only one drive, > and when it's moderately busy DVD burning slows down to 2X > as reported by growisofs. Even if I could add another > PATA HDD, I only have two IDE channels so there will be > contention. I have only one drive, but I tend to schedule my burning sessions when I'm away from the computer (e.g. eating dinner). And I tend to burn only at 2.5x (DVD+RW) since 4-8x burns tend to be partly unreadable in plain DVD (or combo) readers. BTW it's the first time I came across the acronym PATA (smells icky ;-).
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