[ubuntu-uk] pc parts compatibility

[LeeGroups]

Can't comment on the rest, but don't *ever* buy any gear from ECS...

I've built quite a few PCs and ECS motherboards have been nothing but 
trouble...

Cheap they may be, with cheap chipsets, cheap components, and poor 
bioses... urgh....

The K7S5A motherboard springs to mind, try googling it, I honestly ended 
up soldering resistors to several of these motherboards to make them 
more stable (they still weren't perfect) or they else they just forgot 
the time, how much memory they had, that they had USB ports, etc...

Horrid, nasty, cheap bits of junk...

Lee


Farran wrote:
> right, back again. Been to Aria, come back with a much cheaper range 
> of products than Novatech.
> I'd appreciate someone older and wiser (I'm only 15 :P) to look over 
> the components just to check they are compatible with each other and 
> with Linux:
>
> ECS 650iSLIT-A nForce 650 LGA Socket 775 Motherboard 
> <https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Motherboards/Socket+775+%28Intel%29/ECS+650iSLIT-A+nForce+650+LGA+Socket+775+Motherboard+?productId=26899>
> OCZ 4GB PC2-6400 nVIDIA SLI Approved (2X2GB) 
> <https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory/DDR2/DDR2+800+%28PC6400%29/OCZ+4GB+PC2-6400+nVIDIA+SLI+Approved+%282X2GB%29+?productId=28923>
> Samsung SH-S203B 20X DVDRW - SATA - Black 
> <https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/CD%2FDVD+Drives/DVD-R%2FRW+Writer/Samsung+SH-S203B+20X+DVDRW+-+SATA+-+Black+?productId=29919>
> Corsair 550W VX Series PSU 
> <https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Power+Supplies/500w+%2B/Corsair+550W+VX+Series+PSU+?productId=29383>
> 320GB Hitachi Deskstar SATA2 16MB 
> <https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/Serial+ATA/320GB+Hitachi+Deskstar+SATA2+16MB+?productId=24793>
> Gigabyte Poseidon Silver 
> <https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Cases/MIDI+Tower/Gigabyte+Poseidon+Silver+?productId=24865>
> Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz 95W G0 Stepping (Retail 775) 
> <https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/CPUs+%2F+Processors/Intel/Core+2+Duo/Intel+Core+2+Quad+Q6600+2.4GHz+95W+G0+Stepping+%28Retail+775%29+?productId=28356>
> nVidia GeForce 8400GS 512MB PCI-E 
> <https://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/nVidia+GeForce+8400GS+512MB+PCI-E+?productId=29843>
>
> Thanks