[ubuntu-uk] ECS AM3 GeForce 6100PM-M2 motherboard

[Barry Drake]

On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 16:44 +0100, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> Any reason you are specifically going for AMD?

Hmm  ....  I can see I've asked the wrong question.  What I ought to
have said is 'what do you guys recommend?'  No preference for processor.
I'm looking for something fast-ish maybe a bundle something like the one
Maplin are offering.  I need to have at least one IDE slot and a couple
of SATA slots.  Maybe around 2 Gig ram.  Oh, and it needs either
firewire built in, or a card slot for a firewire card. And of course it
has to be good with Ubuntu.

The reason I'm doing it as a motherboard upgrade is that I have my main
box with two removeable hard drive caddies, one IDE and oner SATA.  I
want to be able to carry on swapping these for a number of reasons.  The
present mobo must be some five or six years old, and although good, it's
a bit slow recoding videos to DVD's (it takes all night to do one).

The bundle Maplin is offering includes processor, heatsink and 2 GiB ram
for £189.99  That is about as high as I want to go, but I could maybe
persuaded to go a bit higher if there were really good reasons.  Main
use will probably be with video and photos.  I'm doing almost all my
writing and e-mails on my little netbook.  This means I have everything
I need with me when I'm away from home.
		Barry Drake.
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