Re: Which AM2 motherboard and chipset do you use?
On 20/11/07 16:39,Augustin wrote:
Hello,
As mentioned is a previous thread, my current computer is having some
hardware problems that prevent me from installing Debian (It is
currently running Mandriva).
Since I have some cash coming in, I am now definitely looking at
buying a new computer on which I will exclusively install Debian.
I am set to buying a socket AM2 mainboard, with a slow CPU, a minimum
amount of RAM and use the onboard graphic unit, but I would like to
buy a fairly good/excellent mainboard + very good power supply unit,
so that I can over time, as prices drop, upgrade CPU, RAM and buy a
good, dedicated video card.
For the power supply, I am thinking to buy a 500~550 Watt, 80plus
certified unit.
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I built my PC a couple of months ago and it works with Debian sid very
well. The main components are:
1) AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (EE, lower power consumption - however I'd go
for BE-2350 (45W) now)
2) MoBo: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe ATX Socket AM2 Nvidia Nforce 570 SLI
It's really good one, chipsets are cooled passively (heatpipes), many
connectors on board - you can find good reviews on google. No graphics
onboard, so:
3) used (eBay) XFX Geforce 7600 GT Fatal1ty;
Great, passive cooling so very silent but quite powerful. Now you could
buy 8600GT.
4) HDD WD (WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA II)
Silent, fast, reliable.
5) RAM: 2GB Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 675MHz/PC2-5400
6) Case: Coolermaster Elite 330 Black Mid Tower Case - No PSU
quite cheap (ca. £28) but decent
7) Power Supply - Coolermaster IGreen 430W (85% Efficiency ATX12V v2.2
120mm Fan)
I can tell you that the 430W is really enough unless you want to put a
big array of HDDs inside or power-consuming new SLI gfx. There are also
more powerful versions.
I added 2 rather silent 120mm fans (front and back). My PC is quite
silent (the noisiest part is the boxed processor fan, which I plan to
replace). It's stable, no problems with network, SATA, audio, USB -
everything works. I compiled kernel myself, but most thing worked with
the Debian kernel (AFAIR).
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Cheers,
Michal R. Hoffmann
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