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I would like to know what is your hardware (motherboard, video card, etc.) and if it works great or if you had problems with it. If so, what was the problem and how did you solve it?
With this thread people who wants to buy new hardware could see what to buy and what to avoid.
abit kt7 mobo, AMD 1.2ghz t-bird, 512M pc133 memory,acer monitor, western-digital 40G. hd, sony burner,brand x floppy and 50x cdrom,epson c40ux usb printer, hp 5p scsi scanner fed by an adaptec 2906. soundblaster (ensonic 1371). triple booting SuSE,slack,deb. rock solid.
No problems yet in Mandrake LINUX 9. I use it everyday. I have another system but its running puny Win98 on P4 2 GHz Northwood chip.
Both are running SETI in the background. Whats weird the P4 is two times faster than my AMD in SETI. If I get a 1.4 gigahertz AMD cpu it will be the same speed as my P4.
Unreal Tournament runs fine. I only play against bots.
NVidia modules runs fine. I don't understand why people have so many problems installing them. NVidia's documentation is more complete than other documentation that I read in the past.
In the past I had an 800 MHz AMD processor but it was glitching the software after it turn one year old. Right now its on vacation.
Asus 97TX-E Motherboard
200mhz Pentium MMX
64 MB EDO RAM
Western Digital 5200rpm 17GB
Generic 40x Cdrom
Realtek 8139 NIC
OS: Slackware 8.0
asteroid:
AST Bravo 5166
Pentium 166mhz
144 MB EDO RAM
Ati Mach Video (I think)
Western Digital 5200rpm 2GB
Belkin Generic NIC
Builtin Soundblaster16
15" AST Vision Monitor
OS: Redhat 6.2
Computers without no name:
Sparc10
Sparc20
( These two Sun Sparc's I'm actually going to be giving to Finegan )
Parts lying around or not being used but still work:
4 - Pentium 200mhz
2 - Pentium 233 mhz
1 - 200mhz AMD K6-2
1 - 233mhz AMD k6-2
5 - Soundblaster AWE32
4 - Bestdata Hardware ISA Modems
1 - Unknown Winmodem
1 - Diamond 16MB AGP Video
2 - Voodoo3 2000 Accelerators
1 - Maxtor 1.75GB 5200rpm
1 - Maxtor 6GB 5200rpm
2 - 64MB SDRAM PC100
2 - 128MB SDRAM PC100
1 - External Zip 100 Drive
1 - 17' Viewsonic E771
2 - Asus PSP5A ATX Motherboards (currently selling on ebay)
2 - ATX cases
1 - Lexmark Z42 Printer
And some other misc parts like edo ram.. and such...
Damn, I think I need to get rid of some stuff... What do you think? I bet fin's list is much bigger than mine though
Sparc10
Sparc20
( These two Sun Sparc's I'm actually going to be giving to Finegan )
Its a 10 and a 20?!?!?! I was thinking an LX and a 5 or something, crap dude, guess at the postage, I'll paypal you that!
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Originally posted by trickykid
I bet fin's list is much bigger than mine though
It is, but not by much, you've got a lot of gear on the side. There's no way I'm listing it all... here's the things that bugged me though:
SIS 735 chipset on an ECS board, can't get UDMA... it makes the drives flake, a pair of old 4Gigs. I'm going SCSI with an old 9.1 cheetah. I was having a similar problem for a friends machine with the same chipset, different board... an Epox I think, couldn't get the NTFS 60Gig's partition table to register right until I turned off DMA from boot. However, I can hdparm on his DMA for the Linux 4Gig drive?!?! This is with the u-name it kernels, 2.4.18-20, all of which had changelog SIS entries. Yes, they are different chipset revs.
Everything else I've got has succumbed to my powers... that has drivers. Maybe I'll list them today if I'm bored at work.
VIA P4PB Ultra w/ 8x AGP Mboard
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
SBlaster Audigy
P4 2.53 GHz
Kingmax 512 MB DDR 400
Samsung CD-RW
Sony DVD
Maxtor 80 GB HD w/ fluid bearings
Raidmax powersupply
Spent the weaking compiling / installing LFS. Everything is running real well so far except I'm having trouble getting the kernel's agpgart module to run on the mboard chipset. I found a patch for it that I plan on applying tonight. I hope it works... I'd hate to have to swap out the mboard. Other than that... no problems. Sound works great and the whole system is pretty quiet. Might have to get rid of the fan on the cpu though... makes too much noise.
Tyan 2090 (845)Trinity M/B
P4-2GHz-400FSB-256cache Intel CPU
2x512MB-133MHz-ECC SDRAM Memory
GF4-Ti4600-128DDR VisionTek Video Card
IBM 80GigaByte ATA 100 Hard Drive
Hercules 6.1 Game Theater Pro Sound w/ext box.
Canon I320 USB printer
MS Optical Mouse with 2 side buttons (5 total)
This system is rock solid. However, I should have went with the 2099 (845E), which allows the 533FSB and access to DDR memory for later upgrades.
I get over 5000FPS on GLX gears w/NVidia drivers, and Unreal runs without flaws. I'm about to load the CounterStrike this weekend to see how that runs. GNOME and KDE run fine, but are such pigs that even on my system they 'look/feel' sluggish. The Herc (CS) sound card is 'fab'. I use a $19 v.92 win modem which 'works' (no extras there, and you get what you pay for).
(edit: Conterstrike is only a server, waaahhhh, so no go on that, also, I found out my i320 printer does NOT work with Linux at this time without commercial drivers, see further post for my new machine).
This is ironic that I find this thread after ordering the same M/B and it's on its way to me as we speak. I will wait for the patches, as the specs/tests look fine and give me an upgrade path from the 2ghz/400mhz cpu i've got now. Good luck on your adventure.
ASUS A7S333 Rev 1.04
AMD XP1800+
2 X 256MB Kingston PC2100 DDR
ASUS V7100 Pro MX400
Philips Brilliance 107P Monitor
Seagate Barracuda IV ST380021A 80GB
Seagate Barracuda III ST320414A 20GB
CMD 0649 UltraATA-100 PCI IDE Adapter
SoundBlaster Live 5.1 DE
NetComm Fast Ethernet 100Base-TX Adapter (RTL-8139)
Pioneer DVD-116 DVD-ROM
Lite-On LTR-40125S CD-RW
Microsoft IntelliMouse PS/2 Wheel Mouse
Kyocera Mita FS-1010 USB laser printer
Canon FB-630U scanner
Everything worked OK first up. The only trouble I had was with the sound, only because the mixer had it muted by default after the installation. The motherboard's working was a surprise, because the SiS 745 chip was not listed on Mandrake's hardware compatibility page as being supported; it has not had any problems at all.
See my sig for my main system. As for compatibility, everything works perfect, as far as I know. Someone mentioned a problem with getting the drive to run UDMA on a similar Mobo, but I have not had any problems.
I also have:
Gateway G6-350:
P2 -350 (I don't remember the mobo)
192MB RAM
Quantum Fireball 20 gig HD
voodoo5
I have a full slack 9 install on it, and I am dual booting with Win2k server, and I have had no problems so far, but it is not my main system and I don't use it that much.
I have also pieced together a486 40 mhz with 8mb ram, and a 120 MB hd. Believe it or not, I have a running slackware install on this baby and have used it as firewall and LTSP.
I also have a toshiba T1000 laptop with a 286 and a 10 mb HD in it. The thing is mint, and I have just found a version of linux (thanks to LQ) that will supposedly run on it.
New Hardware:
Via P4PB-FL P4X400 chipset 400/533FSB Motherboard
(Firewire, USB 2.0, 10/100 LAN, 5.1 digital Sound, SPDIF)
P4-2GHz-400FSB-256cache Intel CPU
1x256MB-333MHz 2700 DDR Kinston Memory
GF4-Ti4600-128DDR VisionTek Video Card
20GB Maxtor ATA 100 Hard Drive (Linux)
IBM 80GigaByte ATA 100 Hard Drive (Win2K)
Hercules 6.1 Game Theater Pro Sound
(ext box with digital SPDIF in/out, USB, audio jacks)
Canon I320 USB printer
MS Optical PS2/USB Wheel Mouse with 2 side buttons (5 total)
Standard 3 case fans, you need the P4 Pwr Supply
and an 400watt UPS for a circuit breaker, Just in case.
I haven't run this one through its paces yet, but it boots fine. It'll be a while until I got time to burn this one in and test all the connections, sound outputs (I've got a bunch of those).
Hey, if you get this motherboard, you don't need anything else but a Vid Card, memory, and H/D, it's got it all on-board (and it's cheap too 80 bucks delivered), and you'll have an upgrade path too. My next step will be to get a 533FSB processor and 512MB DDR memory chip. That should make it a smoker, as right now, the 400FSB/256kb cache CPU is a slow pig on tests compared to current athlon/intel CPUs. Gee, 9 months ago, my 2.0Ghz CPU was state of the art....
Via P4PB-FL M/B via pricewatch, 80 bucks
DDR memory, 18 dollars using Circuit CIty rebates
Everything else on-hand from old system
HW+ DVD decoder card (not working yet )
USB Card reader (for my digi camera)
4 port powered USB hub on front (takes 3.5" bay)
fd0=1.44Mb floppy
fd1=Some old 5.25" floppy drive I found in my loft
hda=80Gb ATA100
hdb=40Gb ATA100
hdc=Aopen 10x40x DVD drive
hdd=not in use
hde=Liteone 48x24x48x CDRW
hdf=Iomega Zip250
hdh=not in use
hdg=not in use
Imp
PCCraps mobo
Intel PII-350
192Mb PC100 Ram
hda=Currently 6Gb
hdc=50x CD
ATI AIW Pro (not 128 version) AGP
For a more detailed breakdown of my Beast setup, check my sig.
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