[ubuntu-uk] pc parts compatibility

[Farran]

thanks to you both
just looking at the motherboard and Graphic card...
What's the SLI bit mean? Should I aim to have it on the card or not, and
if I do, will it help?

Cheers :P Farran

PS I like shiny cases, they make the world brighter :D

On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 18:34 +0000, Kris Douglas wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> On 23/12/2007, LeeGroups <mailgroups at varga.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>         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
>         
>         --
>         ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
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>         https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
> 
> 
> ECS 650iSLIT-A nForce 650 LGA Socket 775 Motherboard
> Fine
> OCZ 4GB PC2-6400 nVIDIA SLI Approved (2X2GB)
> Thats fine.
> Samsung SH-S203B 20X DVDRW - SATA - Black
> Thats fine
> Corsair 550W VX Series PSU 
> Thats fine
> 320GB Hitachi Deskstar SATA2 16MB
> Thats fine
> Gigabyte Poseidon Silver
> Ooh shiny 
> Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz 95W G0 Stepping (Retail 775)
> Thats alright
> nVidia GeForce 8400GS 512MB PCI-E
> Acts a bit funny in Ubuntu from me experience, try a 256/320 8600GT/GS
> 
> -- 
> Kris Douglas
>       Softdel Limited Hosting Services
> 
>       Web: www.softdel.net
>       Mail: kris at softdel.net
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