Re: new system to buy
Spend the extra $20 and get an ABIT KT7-RAID motherboard and a
Thunderbird CPU. Also, look into a better video card. ATI doesn't support
the Linux cause at all. You can pick up a TNT2 for $50 and with XFree 4.0.1
you can use NVidia's open source drivers. Plus, the TNT2s are ten times
better than any ATI card (with the exception, in Windoze only, of their new
Radeon.)
As for sound, get a cheap-o Sound Blaster card. (The KT7-RAID doesn't
come with on board sound.) Or if you want to spend $50, (and deal with
Creative Labs *************** (last part censored for obvious reasons) Linux
support) get a Sound Blaster Live.
Brandt Dusthimer
> Hi all,
>
> after many months fighting with myself and then with my better half I'm
> finally ready to build a new system.
>
> It is intended to run Debian and KDE2, maybe also OS/2 4.
>
> I did some research and i have the following in mind now:
>
>
> motherboard SOYO K7VTA
> Mem 128MB Corsair PC133
> HD DiamondMax Plus 15GB, 7200RPM,
> UDMA 66 ST0151500U
> Sound not really important, so I'm going to use the onboard
> Graphics card ATI Rage Fury Pro ATI Rage 128 Pro
>
> case midtower with >=300W
>
>
> No network right now, external modem (works superior: 48k-53k
connections),
> keyboard, trackball, tapedrive, cd-rom, printer from old system.
>
> Anyone any comment?
>
> Matth
>
>
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