<div>On 13/12/2007, Alan Pope <<a href="mailto:alan@popey.com">alan@popey.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:50:39PM +0000, Farran wrote: > hi all > building a computer just for personal use, selected all the parts form > novatech: > Hard Drive > Motherboard Bundle > Graphics Card > Optical Drive > Sound Card > Keyboard > Mouse > This costs Ł621.47. > Difficult to tell without specific makes and model numbers to be honest. That said, the vast majority of hardware these days works just fine with Linux. > Wondered if anyone has used these parts or knows whether they work with > Linux - a friend reminded me that some of the newer hardware won't work, > for example, the quad core processor maybe? The processor should be fine, but the motherboard may have some quirks. Again, difficult to tell without model numbers. Cheers, Al. -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote> </div> I'm not advertising against novatech, but some of the prices on there are much more expensive than <a href="http://www.Aria.co.uk">www.Aria.co.uk</a>, they're based in Manchester and have some good hardware prices (I'm not associated in any way, but i have never found anywhere with better prices for hardware, and because they include lots of specifics, you can see if the hardware is supported on Linux, like most of the Jetway motherboards don't work on Ubuntu for some odd reason... -- Kris Douglas       Softdel Limited Hosting Services       Web: <a href="http://www.softdel.net">www.softdel.net</a>       Mail: <a href="mailto:kris@softdel.net">kris@softdel.net</a>