New Linux Box (Revisited)

Thanks to everyone (General, Chris, M.Kmann, Scott) for all the good advice. I decided not to wait after all; the AM2 didn't seem to offer enough added performance to be worth paying the new release price point, so I built a new machine figuring I'll build another next year anyway.

I chose the MSI K8N Neo4 motherboard, and I've never had a system build go smoother. FC5 recognized everything; all I had to do afterward was install the nVidia driver from livna, and all is good. I was frankly amazed at how well the installer recognized all my hardware; it was a no-brainer.

The only fly in the ointment was that one of the 4 1GB memory sticks I ordered is bad, so I'm still not running 4GB of RAM, although I'm confident it'll work fine, too. Just waiting on a Newegg RMA.

Thanks again, guys.

Mark
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