From: Jonathan Drews
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 20:10:26 -0800
From: Michael Perry
A friend of mine would like to get a computer and install SuSE 7.0 on it. Could you folks please recommend suitable hardware. This person has not owned a PC before, however he uses Windows based PC's at work.
a) What is a good video card?
b) Are 3 COM external modems good?
c) What type of hard drive will be recognized by YAST2's hard drive optimization program.
d) What is a good sound card?
The plan is to go to a computer dealer, who builds computers with the components you specify. Thanks in afvance for any suggestions.
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I just did this myself. There is a pretty good howto in the last issue of Linux Journal on a bargain priced system which you put together yourself. I have found that by doing this you tend to get the best hardware and some of the best deals out there. I just build a system like this: AT Style Motherboard Mid-tower AMD K6 II 500 Diamond Viper 770d video card (32mb) or the Z200 Diamond Viper (32mb) 256mb of memory 20 gig ide hard disk drive 48spd ide cd rom 3.5 floppy drive sblive pci card intel etherexpress 100+ 20g maxtor ide drive I think I spent about $600 or so on this; maybe less. I think now reflecting on it, I probably spent less because I had some of the stuff laying around from other projects. There are some good online sources for components like this. A few I can recommend (from the LJ article) are: Aberdeeninc - www.aberdeeninc.com (motherboards, cases, video) computer supersale - www.computersupersale.com (cpus, memory) solutions4sure - www.solutions4sure.com (memory) cd and floppy drives can be found just about anywhere like yahoo! shopping, etc for good prices. If the person knows some of the basics that can build a pretty nice system and be assured that the components all work with Linux since they are designing the system from the ground up. Thats what I did to build a linux compatible system. The system I built booted the very first time (which is rather satisfying after putting it all together) and it took debian at first and now SuSE 7 really well. I don't buy prebuilt systems anymore except for laptops :) For laptops I buy dell. -- Michael Perry mperry@tsoft.com ------------------
From: Nick Zentena
I just did this myself. There is a pretty good howto in the last issue of Linux Journal on a bargain priced system which you put together yourself. I have found that by doing this you tend to get the best hardware and some of the best deals out there. I just build a system like this:
AT Style Motherboard
<p> I'd suggest staying away from AT style anything today. Unless you're rebuilding an older system it isn't worth it. How many motherboards are even made today to the AT format? Cases aren't that more plentifull. Worse the price doesn't seem any better. OTOH if anybody knows a good AT motherboard I've got a very nice large full size AT tower that I wouldn't mind putting back to work. Nick
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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:50:52 -0500
From: Damon Register
OTOH if anybody knows a good AT motherboard I've got a very nice large full size AT tower that I wouldn't mind putting back to work.
Asus motherboards are very nice. I installed an Asus board in an old Gateway 386 and used a 200MHz Pentium that is working just fine with SuSE 7.0. The Asus board that I am using is the P5A-B, a baby AT board. Damon Register
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 08:26:10 -0800
From: Michael Perry
On November 23, 2000 11:10 pm, Michael Perry wrote:
I just did this myself. There is a pretty good howto in the last issue of Linux Journal on a bargain priced system which you put together yourself. I have found that by doing this you tend to get the best hardware and some of the best deals out there. I just build a system like this:
AT Style Motherboard
I'd suggest staying away from AT style anything today. Unless you're rebuilding an older system it isn't worth it. How many motherboards are even made today to the AT format? Cases aren't that more plentifull. Worse the price doesn't seem any better.
OTOH if anybody knows a good AT motherboard I've got a very nice large full size AT tower that I wouldn't mind putting back to work.
Nick
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There are a lot of people that make good AT style motherboards. ASUS is one. One of the sites I listed in my post has several AT boards. There is nothing really wrong AT style boards. I can find cases for AT style boards all over the place online. <p> -- Michael Perry mperry@tsoft.com ------------------
From: Nick Zentena
There are a lot of people that make good AT style motherboards. ASUS is one. One of the sites I listed in my post has several AT boards. There is nothing really wrong AT style boards. I can find cases for AT style boards all over the place online.
Looking at the Asus site the only AT boards I can find are socket 7. I'm not saying there is any problem with the boards today but if for the same money you can get an ATX board [which you can] then you are better off with an ATX board and case. Locally for every AT style board I can find 10 different ATX boards. That will only get worse with time. I know the cost of a new case is fairly small but personally I'd rather go with something with a little future potential. It's not like you gain anything with going AT. It is a totally different issue if you already have an AT case but if you don't what's the point? Nick
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