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11-08-2002, 01:43 PM
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does any body has a good advice on building a pc
Hi all, I want to build my pc, I am a red hat user, I would like to know if you guys have a good aproved hardware advice. like what mother board band will work, etc. etc.
thanks all
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11-08-2002, 03:51 PM
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Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Rome, Italy ; Novi Sad, Srbija; Brisbane, Australia
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Asus motherboards are nice, a Athlon or another AMD of course, and get SCSI drives!!! I forgot SCSI when i built mine and now i have all IDE devices, but i personally prefer SCSI more, and then whats cooler than havind /dev/sda2 for your /home partition.
Also NVidia cards are very good, and some cheap SB live! to listen to music. And 3com NICs work nice although just any would do. A hardware as opposed to software modem always!
HTH
-NSKL
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11-08-2002, 07:39 PM
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thanks, alot
actualy I jusst check the support cpu on redhat 8 , and I do not , but Amd xp processesor are not supported, HUGRRRRRR.
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11-08-2002, 08:05 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by hugosoto
thanks, alot
actualy I jusst check the support cpu on redhat 8 , and I do not , but Amd xp processesor are not supported, HUGRRRRRR.
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dont worry about the processor, most linux distributions will run on the current Intel or AMD processor lineups.
If you are thinking of linux compatibility these are the things you should watch out for
1. sound card ( get a sound blaster card, these are well supported in Linux)
2. modem ( dont get a winmodem, its painful to get them to work under linux)
3. Ethernet card ( get an cheap card sayone with RealTek 8139)
4. Most IDE drives or IDE controlors should work on linux
Best of luck, before you purchase any component use google.com for search for compatibility with linux.
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11-09-2002, 03:49 AM
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I have Athlon XP 1600+ and it works perfectly.
Get a Athlon and dont worry! 
They are cheaper than Intels's P4 and even faster!
-NSKL
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11-09-2002, 02:34 PM
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so you mean , that RED HAT 8 will run on a amd xp, if so I going amd, but I just want to make shure that redhat 8 will run with out a problem I heard that there are some troubles on install .
so is any body that has red hat running on a xp amd
ps. I realy like this forum. I have been in other sucky windows forums, and the windozers they do not share, ( they are allready windows mind washed) thanks guys.
keep up sharing, I do when I can ( when I know a answer)
keep up this forum. LINUX rocks
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11-09-2002, 07:00 PM
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yes go for AMD, these are good top of the line CPUs and runs well under linux
Only a copule of months back I built a AMD Athlon XP 1700+ system for my friend, it is working fine with Linux. See this link , this compay is selling Athlon XP systems with Red Hat 8.0 preinstalled ( http://www.pogolinux.com/cgi-bin/sys...?system=Altura)
I just saw the Red Hat hardware compatibility database, agreed they dont mention Athlon XP in the supported hardware database. Then i went and check Suse 8.1 , even SuSE does not mention Athlon Xp in the hardware database, only Mandrake 9.0 has Athlon XP in its supported hardware.
This very funny ..... We all know that Athlon XP based systems have a good market share, and works very well under Linux, yet the two biggest distros ignore this processor in its hardware compatibility list !!!!!!
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11-09-2002, 07:16 PM
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this is a great site for finding low prices on computer parts
http://www.pricewatch.com/
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11-09-2002, 07:26 PM
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To reinforce what was said earlier by manaskb and others. Make sure the components you buy are supported in Linux before you get them. Especially the bleeding edge stuff. ATI Radeon 9000 & 9700 should be knocked off your list for the moment as an example.
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11-09-2002, 07:46 PM
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more thanks
I going athelon xp. ( I always wanted ) once more thanks all .
the force ( tux ) be with you.
by the way the samba 3 is almost out cant wait.
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