[gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-15 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Greetings list, After my mobo fried, I decided to upgrade and buy a new one, with a new processor, I would get an Asus last generation with an Athlon 64 as processor and the rest inherit from my previous machine (so, compatible as far as I know). I've seen posts regarding imcompatibility issues w

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-15 Thread Andreas Karlsson
On Friday 15 July 2005 17.06, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > Any advice? I´ll give my 2 cents. Asus is to begin with a (in my experience) very good vendor. Even though you buy a AMD64 now, you are not forced to compile Gentoo for amd64 arcitecture. You could compile it for AthlonXP (x86). > PS: Nvid

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-15 Thread Zac Medico
Daniel da Veiga wrote: > Greetings list, > > After my mobo fried, I decided to upgrade and buy a new one, with a > new processor, I would get an Asus last generation with an Athlon 64 > as processor and the rest inherit from my previous machine (so, > compatible as far as I know). > > I've seen p

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-15 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Well, I'm planning on using cedega for gaming, so, your mail kinda scared me (*LOL*), but anyway, there's always the choice to build a compatible "mini-system" at another partition or disc with the athlon-xp arch... If I ever plan on having a windows partition (I'm a gamer, ratter prefer transgamer

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-15 Thread Zac Medico
Daniel da Veiga wrote: Well, I'm planning on using cedega for gaming, so, your mail kinda scared me (*LOL*), but anyway, there's always the choice to build a compatible "mini-system" at another partition or disc with the athlon-xp arch... If I ever plan on having a windows partition (I'm a gamer,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-15 Thread Bob Sanders
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:06:52 -0300 Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any advice? Yes - Get a 939 pin processor. 754 pin socket is going away. Also, it's not just the motherboard. If you are a gamer - start with the Gfx card. If you are going for one of the high end cards, be aw

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-16 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Thanks, I did some research and I've decided to get a 939 with an a64fx 3500+ in an asus a8n sli deluxe, I already have a 600w power bestexpress supply, guess that will do the deal, I'll stick with my old nvidia graphic card till I get money to get a new board (probably pci-e), I guess all my games

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-17 Thread Jarry
Daniel da Veiga wrote: Thanks, I did some research and I've decided to get a 939 with an a64fx 3500+ in an asus a8n sli deluxe, I have 3200+ with a8n-sli deluxe, and I'm a little dissapointed with that motherboard: - terrible bios! e.g.: you set memory frequency (ddr400), then change cpu-frequ

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:38, Jarry wrote: > > Just my 2 cents. I have been using asus-products for about 7 years, > but I think asus is not the hardware-producer it used to be. Asus > still makes excelent mobo's for Intel, but its mobo's for AMD64 > are... well, imho only "average". Nothing more,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-17 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 09:38:51 +0200 Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I would like to build a new comp today, I would probably go > with EpoX, DFI, Gigabyte or MSI motherboards... > Personally, my list would be Epox and Tyan. Though Tyan is pretty conservative, and the bios doesn't ever see

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-17 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Well, that's a new advice on motherboards and power suplies, guess I'll chill and read more before getting mine. I have been an Asus user for about 6 years and not many problems, guess we all have to walk to soyo's valley of death to learn more about mobos, I'll research the MSI and DFI mobos for n

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 17 July 2005 18:32, Bob Sanders wrote: > btw - my recommendation of PC Power & Cooling power supplies is not > because there are no others as good, it's that I've had more fails and seen > more fails with other brands. ok, I do not now PC Power & Cooling, but I've had a couple of PSUs

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-18 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:56:58 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, I do not now PC Power & Cooling, but I've had a couple of PSUs so far and > the 'best' was and is an Enermax. > > A friend of mine has Enermax too, reliable good stuff. Yes and no. The basic power supply i