Re: recommended motherboards for build?

2009-01-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/13/09 18:00, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: if you're just going for surfing and word precessing, just get a Athlon X2 4800 with a 'just enough' motherboard for less than 150 USD. Heck, get a dual-core Atom 330 with a lot of RAM and a passively-cooled video card. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson

Re: recommended motherboards for build?

2009-01-13 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
if you're just going for surfing and word precessing, just get a Athlon X2 4800 with a 'just enough' motherboard for less than 150 USD. 2009/1/14 Lennart Sorensen : > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:34:27PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Then you definitely don't need a quad core CPU and even if you in

Re: recommended motherboards for build?

2009-01-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:34:27PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Then you definitely don't need a quad core CPU and even if you insist > you shouldn't use the Q6600. Yeah something like an E8400 is a nice choice. TDP of 65W (versus 95 or 105 on the Q6600 or newer quads), and cheap, and 3GHz, whic

Re: recommended motherboards for build?

2009-01-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:08:01PM -0500, Petrus Validus wrote: > I have been thinking of building a low-power Debian AMD64 desktop with a > Core 2 Quad CPU (probably the Q6600). The purpose of this machine is > nothing special, just the basic computing type thing (office suite, > email, web surfi

Re: recommended motherboards for build?

2009-01-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Petrus Validus: > > I have been thinking of building a low-power Debian AMD64 desktop with a > Core 2 Quad CPU (probably the Q6600). The purpose of this machine is > nothing special, just the basic computing type thing (office suite, > email, web surfing) without the power-hungry hardware. Then

Re: recommended motherboards for build?

2009-01-13 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. > I have been thinking of building a low-power Debian AMD64 desktop with a > Core 2 Quad CPU (probably the Q6600). The purpose of this machine is > nothing special, just the basic computing type thing (office suite, > email, web surfing) without the power-hungry hardware. If low power is imp

Re: recommended motherboards for build?

2009-01-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
you may get better bang for buck with an actual amd64 chip Dean Petrus Validus wrote: Hi All, I have been thinking of building a low-power Debian AMD64 desktop with a Core 2 Quad CPU (probably the Q6600). The purpose of this machine is nothing special, just the basic computing type thing (off

recommended motherboards for build?

2009-01-12 Thread Petrus Validus
Hi All, I have been thinking of building a low-power Debian AMD64 desktop with a Core 2 Quad CPU (probably the Q6600). The purpose of this machine is nothing special, just the basic computing type thing (office suite, email, web surfing) without the power-hungry hardware. Stability as my primary