Re: Questions about new hardware & Debian (or Linux in general)
Neal,
Well, I think you've found my weak point. I have been looking at
fairly new stuff. When shopping for processors I found there was
little difference in price between Intel's Haswell verses Ivy Bridge
(at least for Pentiums, which what I'm thinking of getting). So the
mainboards have new chipsets (either H81 or H87). Is the chipset an
issue?
I was going to go for an entry level Nvidia graphics card, so I don't
think that shouldn't be a problem. And the Audio and NIC chips vary
by the board, which I haven't selected yet, so that will come next.
Jon
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Neal Murphy <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> On Monday, November 11, 2013 05:25:18 PM Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 05:03:44PM -0500, Jon N wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have been a Debian user for I'd guess 7 or 8 years now. I would
>> > like to thank all of you that helped create a system that is so
>> > useful. Despite using it for so long I am far from a power users, I
>> > basically rely on the fact that it works well (or if it doesn't it
>> > will soon :-)).
>> >
>> > My current computer is also about that old and I am finally planning
>> > on buying some new hardware. A lot of stuff has changed in that time
>> > that's new to me, so I would like to ask some general questions before
>> > I purchase to save some potential headaches later.
>>
>> Rule of thumb: stick with off-the-shelf stuff :-) You don't want to be
>> the first guy with some esoteric hardware.
>
> To expand on this point a little, buy mainboards, NICs (even if built-in) and
> video cards that were manufactured not much later than early 2012. Debian
> stable doesn't necessarily support all newer hardware.
>
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