Re: Want PC Config in delhi

[Jerry Michael Howell II <jmhowell@xxxxxxx>]

hello there,

	I know that the gforce2 w/ddr ram works realy well as far as AGP's
go, it would be a top choice. Any SoundBlaster should work, as well as the
ESS series of sound cards, I am corently running one. Someone recomended
if I go with an AMD thunderbird or amd k-7 to go with an abit motherboard,
if they are cluless, send them to http://www.abit.com has a regular
motherboard and one for raid capability. as far as the hd mabe the ibm
hd's are the best, if you are going to go for a 40 gig, mabe have a 20 gig
as the master and use the 40 gig as the slave. I realy am not sure to much
about the compatabilaty with linux beyond the fact that everyone I know
that has a 40 gig uses a smaller hd to install lilo on and it works just
fine, if you plan to use a realy large disk as your main disk, also make
sure to install the swap on the last sectoers of the drive as they tend to
make swaping much quicker, as for the ram, i'd stick with the sdram, mabe
even up it to 256 megs with the AGP. hope this helps

jer


On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Sumit Bidani wrote:

> hi all,
>        i hope you guys can help me out. I'm getting a
> PC assembled, but these hardware guys are deep shit.
> They just don't know (or may be don't wanna know about
> linux friendly hardware) so i did a bit of research
> and hope you guys would point out the mistakes (will
> gladly accept any kind of comment). 
> 
>         Here's my config:
> AMD Athlon 1G
> M'board ASUS A7V (what model?)
> 128M Symtronics SDRAM (or should i get RDRAM ?)
> Hard Disk 20G Samsung (Or is there any lin compatible
> 40G model)
> 
> ? AGP (Whoopeee I Don't Know?)
> ? Sound Card
> 
>           The confusing part is that engineers tell me
> that AMD comes with its own m'board, to what extent is
> that true and are they lin-friendly boards. 
> 
> thanx in anticipation,
> Sumit Bidani
> New Delhi
> 
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- Jerry M. Howell II