On Tuesday 03 May 2005 21:45, Jack Malone wrote:
At 06:33 PM 5/3/2005, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Well, I'm about as "bleeding edge" as it can get here with this new box. I did have to add a PCI sound card, but the SATA and all the rest of the "goodies" was seen and installed during the inital install. I did have a glitch with sound, but I think that is a permissions thing that SUSE just hasn't fixed yet.
Hey fred care to tell us what your bleeding edge hardware you have runnng there. I'm in market for some new stuff for a machine for server at home
thanks
Hi jack, ( must remember to never say that aboard an airliner) I heartly recommend the hi-end AMD Athlon XPs of the 'Barton" core variety. The Bartons have the BIG 512KB Lvl-II cache which makes them very snappy. The XP2800 sells for about $100 or less and can easily run at 3000. They also run cooler than anything earlier, or anything from INTEL. I like the ABIT motherboards a lot. I am cranking out SETI units in slightly less than 3 hrs which is right up there with the AMD64 units which are much more costly. The Bartons use PC2700 or PC3200 memory which is quick but reasonable in cost compared to the newer stuff. Up to date SATA drives are not delivering noticably faster performance compared to the old stand-by Parallel ATA, The P ATA drives prices are coming down fast now that the system houses are only buying SATA. Just my thoughts, PeterB