[ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice

Chris Coulson chrisccoulson at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 1 14:21:15 GMT 2008


2008/12/1 Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk>

>
> On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote:
> >>
> >
> > I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money
> > built
> > a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was:
> >
> > Decent Abit mainboard
> > AMD Athlon X2 4200+
> > 2GB Corsair standard stuff
> > 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks)
> > dual layer DVD-+RW
> > 19" wide HannsG monitor
> > Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU
> >
> > It was a grand total of about £300 but I had to make sure I got good
> > components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked
> > Abit
> > motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience.
> > They
> > used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do.
> >
> > The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast.
> >
>
> I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't
> remember if it was posted here.  I'm just a bit dubious now.


> Rob
>
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Rob,

You're probably referring to this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249

Regards
Chris
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