-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 October 2003 13:37, Elizabeth Angus wrote:
I'm a long time SuSE user currently at 8.2, and heading for 9.0. My old faithful sub-1Ghz AMD on an ASUS motherboard just died. Congestive disk failure. I am looking for a new machine and want to go "near top end." Listed below is what I am considering. I would appreciate any feedback on this selection including recommendations for any alternatives or any negative experiences with my selections. I am not a heavy gamer. I do digital photography, some architectural CAD, lots of surfing, and typical home office stuff. This is a retirement machine for me that I expect to use for several years.
Mother board - ASUS P4C800 Deluxe CPU - Intel P4 2.8c Memory - Samsung 512Mb DDR 400 (2 chips) Video - ASUS V9480 TVD hard drive - Seagate SATA ST3160023AS (barracuda 7200.7 160Gb) DVD - Plextor PX504A-SW (DVD + and - RW and CD-RW)
Any comments greatly appreciated.
"I do digital photography, some architectural CAD".
Well actually John Andersen's suggestion about getting more ram is well founded IMHO. CAD and Photography/imaging programs love RAM, the more the merrier. Especially with complex imaging you want to avoid having to go to disk except of grabbing certain things or to write various forms of saved files. If you can do the bulk of whatever in RAM it will me less lag time and hiccups in these sorts of programs. HTH, Curtis. - -- Those who throw objects at the crocodiles will be asked to retrieve them. NOTICE TO SPAMMERS: NO TRESPASSING. Violators will be shot. Survivors will be shot again. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/lINHiqnGhdjCOJsRAt1NAJ9RmKwInhkiSTdqJKgi47Rm0ecDmgCfQYUN PrBgls6KPzzAwjN79K65yhk= =6NNf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----