2008/12/1 Rob Beard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob@esdelle.co.uk">rob@esdelle.co.uk</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote:<br>
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> I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money<br>
> built<br>
> a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was:<br>
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> Decent Abit mainboard<br>
> AMD Athlon X2 4200+<br>
> 2GB Corsair standard stuff<br>
> 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks)<br>
> dual layer DVD-+RW<br>
> 19" wide HannsG monitor<br>
> Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU<br>
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> It was a grand total of about £300 but I had to make sure I got good<br>
> components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked<br>
> Abit<br>
> motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience.<br>
> They<br>
> used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do.<br>
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> The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast.<br>
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</div>I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't<br>
remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><font color="#888888"><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Rob,<br><br>You're probably referring to this: <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249</a><br><br>Regards<br>Chris<br>