[NTLUG:Discuss] New Box

[cbbrowne@hex.net]

On Thu, 03 May 2001 14:03:22 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
"WILLIAM PEARSON" <WPEARSON at cyclix.com>  said:
> I'm building a new box for my wife who wants to run Linux as her system.
> She became so angry over Hailstorm, XP, and .NET, it was incredible.  I
> have successfully convered an M$-Drone to the righteousness of Linux.

> I have a question though.  I'm wanting to build her a 1.33 Ghz Athlon
> T-Bird utilizing DDR memory.  Now I don't know if there is any
> compatibility issues with Linux on that. Does anyone have any experience or
> knowledge of problems of Linux on such a platform? Particularly Red Hat
> 7.0.

That's pretty bleeding-edge hardware, so there's some risk of the bugs
not all having been worked out yet, but the issues should relate to the
motherboard far more than to Linux.

Is there some particular reason why you would think it best to spend the
Big Buck$ on the latest Athlon processor?

The difference in price between 850MHz and 1.3GHz is around $100; for
that money you could get an extra 256MB of RAM, and cut down considerably
on power consumption.  A happy result in the summer months :-).  It's
entirely likely that performance will be I/O bound, or, if it's graphics-bound,
buying a graphics card with better acceleration would probably beat out
buying a marginally faster CPU...
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