On Friday 16 February 2001 18:24, Matthew wrote:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
At 02:42 PM 2/16/2001 -0800, you wrote:
Wow,
I would go with a P3, Duron or ThunderBird. 256MB RAM as RAM is not too expensive (well is to me, but at $50 for 128 not too bad). Duron's and Thunderbird's have DDR (double data rate) memory.
If I'm not mistaken, there aren't any K7 mainboards out yet, that take DDR-
They are out (the ASUS 760 is DDR) although they are so new you may want to let them mature. I see the Micron DDR 64MB on pricewatch for $43...Although again best to wait. I need to clarify though, I should have stated DDR bus speed of 200MHz.
Hmmmm, you're making me think I may need to start looking for work sooner than I had expected. I may want one of these myself. Do they come in SMP flavors?
ViewSonic PS790 are nice, you are going to get a lot of recomendations
I've had good experience with View Sonics ...again, look at SuSE's supported hardware list JW,
I really want to hear form people actually using the stuff. SuSE's management is perhaps the most honest in the entire computer industry, but they are still busness men. ;-) Not to mention that us propeller-heads tend to say 'it works great. . . all you need to do is crack open the @#$%.conf and tweak the $%%$% line.'
Do not get one of those nameless-barnd ones. Make sure it's made by a major company so you can pin it down to an exact model number. SCSI is sure better but it's really not needed for a mid-grade system. IDE 10x is fine.
My main concern here is that he may need to tinker to get ide-scsi going, not that hard really, but if you are after plug and play...Does SuSe 7.1 detect IDE scsi and setup the required parameter for you? If it does, or getting ide-scsi going is no big deal then IDE will be fine :-)/
SCSI gives me a better feeling than IDE in general, but it does come at a price. IIRC, AHA Ultra160s are blindingly fast. I just don't know the investment it would take to exploit that. I have an AHA2940 or something like that. Really love it, but I believe I had to build my own kernel before I got the 40 Meg transfer rate. I was using a 2.4.2 -pr3 kernel for a few days. This thing booted like a rocket with that in it. Don't know it was SCSI related, but it sure was faster.
Motherboard will be dependant upon the Processor type. Duron/Thunderbird m/boards tended to be more expensive,
That is certainly not true. Intel Mobo's are about the only ones I would classify as expensive. All good Mainboards are ~$120 - ~$200. Do not get a cheap one (less then $100) there's too many out there that are not good quality. I have had very bad trouble with Soyo's from Tiger Direct, and the FIC boards, though they are recommended by AMD, will not use all 6 PCI slots ( I found that one out the hard way).
When I was comparing getting a Duron, or a Celeron I noticed that the Thunderbird boards were more expensive than a comparable board that would take a Celeron, it was in the region of $20 difference, but performance was certainly great between the two. Thats my reasoning there.
$20 is chump change when it comes to MoBo performance.
Everyone seems to say Epson, not sure on the model :-(.
I use an HP 812C, no problems, apart from the difficulty in getting ink (ack).
Good point, ink. This is another downside to my HP 970Cse. The colors are all in one cartrage. One color goes and the cartrage is shot. I think I may be able to get refils or even do it myself. But who want's to?
I have had continual good expirience with even the cheapest (~$20) linksys "tulip" cards (such as the LNE100-TX) and 3coms are high quality... really, a linksys should do ...they're about the cheapest too
Just avoid the FA311 as it will need to be setup with a new module (natsemi). Tulip based cards are good (gennerally) , I'd go with your recomendations on the Linksys as its been through more tests. Of the tulip chipset there about 170 different variations of it, therefore someone elses postive experience is worth a great deal! The FA311 is so new its hard to tell, I had one bad experience, but it could just have been a bad card...
170 different variations? Bad! Reminds me of my days as a tech fighting with video cards with the same brand name and number, but different chipsets. Bad! Bad! Bad! Steve