Re: New computer?

abnhqx_at_lvpdoe.com
Date: 10/02/03 

Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 06:13:23 GMT

|I'm thinking of getting/building a new computer but haven't paid any attention
|to hardware in ages. Since SUSE 9.0 is just around the corner, I'd like an
|Athelon cpu; may as well take advantage of the 64 bit potential.

Better work out the offerings available and the cost first. From what
I've read the technology is still on the uptake curve and naturally
early adopters pay a price. Unless you are doing heavy duty serving or
databases or number crunching, it's unlikely you will feel the benefit
of a 64-bit memory space. Also not all software has been made to take
advantage of the bigger space. There are a number of hardware reviews
out there, a google should find them.

|I have a number of old LPs too, which it would be nice to capture, then burn to
|a CD. Linux Journal has an article on doing this, but I'm not sure what
|additional soundcard features I might need. Maybe a stock soundcard is all
|that's required?

Just a good soundcard, the quality of the capture depends on the
soundcard. I used a SB5.1 and it's ok for me, the quality is probably
better than the LPs. Audiophiles may be more picky.

One thing I'm looking forward to is the low-latency kernels in 2.6 and
maybe the backported SuSE 2.4s. I found that my sound capture loses
samples if anything else intensive is done, like a large network copy. 

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