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Re: buy or build computer?




hi ya

On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:55:32PM -0500, Peter Christensen wrote:
> > My five-year-old Gateway Pentium 200 MHz died recently.  (It won't

get a used 486 or used pentium to get yourself back online..
	- just take the old disk and put into the new pc
	and you're back online ??

	- if your disk died, hope you have a backup
	and jsut buy a new $30 (10GB) disk

for new boxes..

> You might check out the following (in no particular order):
>    http://pricewatch.com
>    http://cyberpowerpc.com
>    http://excaliberpc.com

rest of the online pc stores.. and comparason shopping places
	http://www.linux-1u.net/WebStores/

used pc (online) stores .... no such thing??
	local pc store selling old stuff... a few in SF bay area

> > A few people recommended the AMD Athlon processor over Pentiums.

but one must compile a fresh kernel for amd to take advantage
of the athlon instruction set ??
	- which bombs on p3/p4.. :-)
 
> > And Matrox for video
> 
> Most main stream video chipsets are well supported.

hate both .... since they both have *.o files but no sources
which makes it harder to run your own customized kernels

just had to make rh-7.2 and rh-8.0 run on ATI FireGL-2 and nVidia Quadra4
and its a pain in the behind ot get working since they dont release
sources ... for compiling and linking... it a "broken" sources they give
you ..  ( some of it is just  *.o and *.a and *.so )

> >  Soundblaster or Ensoniq for sound
> 
> With ALSA, I've had little trouble getting any audio chip to work.

ensoniq is easier to config... but is dependent on your cards
	- get good speakers if sound quality is important

c ya
alvin



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