a good desktop for kubuntu

[David Fletcher]

On Saturday 07 February 2009 20:37:45 Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> Build it yourself with an Asus motherboard and a Western Digital hard
> drive. You won't get any better than that. As for the processor, I am
> partial to AMD though I am currently using a dual-core Intel on this
> laptop and it is a very enjoyable processor (it is my first dual-core
> processor, though).
>

I always recommend something similar, although I used a Seagate SATA drive and 
an Asus board with a GBP20 fanless, PCI Express graphics card.

My choice of processor was an AMD dual core energy efficient unit with a large 
OCZ copper pipe heatsink. This heatsink choice for a low power processor may 
sound a little daft, but with a huge area of aluminium vanes on the copper 
pipes and a relatively large fan, the fan runs at minimum speed and the 
processor runs nearly cold.

Also, choose an 80+ power supply. My Antec case came with one ready fitted.

If gaming performance is not needed, I say build a system similar to mine. 
With energy efficient components, no tiny graphics card fan, and the 
processor, case and power supply fans all running at low speed, the whole 
system runs almost cold and almost silent.

Just my opinion.

Dave