Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advice on motherboard upgradw ...

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Bagnall
I know you said you were looking to spend around £120, but if I were in your position I'd spend the extra £25 for http://www.ebuyer.com/product/237052 You say the main reason for an upgrade is to improve video rendering. Whilst I've got no experience with Kino I suspect it uses ffmpeg or mencoder

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advice on motherboard upgradw ...

2010-10-18 Thread Jim Price
On 17/10/10 20:54, Rob Beard wrote: > You can get boards with AMD/ATI chipsets but they're a bit more > expensive and I'm not entirely sure how well they work with Ubuntu (okay > they should be fine with the proprietary ATI drivers but I'm not sure > how well they work with the FLOSS drivers). I'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advice on motherboard upgradw ...

2010-10-17 Thread Rob Beard
On 17/10/10 17:07, Barry Drake wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 15:42 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: >> On 17/10/10 15:29, Barry Drake wrote: >> I'd suggest either Aria or eBuyer.com. I believe both actually now do >> bundles of either AMD or Intel CPUs. For around £120 I'd expect you >> could get an Athl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advice on motherboard upgradw ...

2010-10-17 Thread Barry Drake
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 15:42 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > On 17/10/10 15:29, Barry Drake wrote: > I'd suggest either Aria or eBuyer.com. I believe both actually now do > bundles of either AMD or Intel CPUs. For around £120 I'd expect you > could get an Athlon II X2 or Pentium Dual Core. Thanks for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advice on motherboard upgradw ...

2010-10-17 Thread Rob Beard
On 17/10/10 15:29, Barry Drake wrote: > A couple of months back, I was given lots of thoughts on this list about > a motherboard upgrade, and decided to wait a bit. I'm now thinking of > doing something this Winter and would appreciate advice. My present rig > has an SiS-741 with an AMD Athlon XP

[ubuntu-uk] Advice on motherboard upgradw ...

2010-10-17 Thread Barry Drake
A couple of months back, I was given lots of thoughts on this list about a motherboard upgrade, and decided to wait a bit. I'm now thinking of doing something this Winter and would appreciate advice. My present rig has an SiS-741 with an AMD Athlon XP2000+ processor at 1666 MHz. I have 1GiB memo