Re: Another "What Motherboard Should I Buy" question
- From: General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 21 Apr 2007 03:14:37 GMT
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:01:44 -0600, Mark Adams wrote:
Greetings.
I'm looking for advice/recommendations on a new mobo and other parts. My
current desktop is an Intel WN845D, 2.6 GHz P4, 1 GB of RAM, AGP4 slot.
I'm running Mandriva 2007 and I just don't have enough horsepower to run
the Beryl desktop.
As is when I open a new Firefox window, the CPU load jumps to 100% and
cruises there for several seconds while the window opens. If I've got
two or three torrents downloading and some other process running in the
background, I may wait 20 or 30 seconds for the window to open. I
initially thought this might be because my ATI Radeon 9250 was bogging
down, but that wouldn't account for the high CPU load.
At any rate, time to upgrade. I am shooting for something like this:
Intel Core 2 Duo at about 2.3 GHz
2 GB RAM
Nvidia PCI express graphics
Gigabyte ethernet
Two SATA hard drives
A DVD writer (SATA?)
The usual handful of USB, serial, parallel ports, Firewire ports for my
video camera (PCI card is okay here) And a powersupply that will put up
a reliable, honest 500 Watts. Oh and a snazzy black, half-tower case
that isn't made of some exotic material like aluminum and doesn't have
windows and lights in it.
I think that's about it. Proposed budget is around $700, but I am
somewhat flexible.
I know I want the Core 2 Duo, but I have no idea what mobo to build this
around. Anybody have any suggestions about any of this?
Thanks.
--
Mark E. Adams, 2004 -- drop the "dot" to email me.
http://adamslan.shyper.com -*- Mandriva User# 263042
CONSIDER: ===========---------,,,,,,,,,............. . . . . . There
is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
A piece of general advice, make all of your drives SATA including the
DVD. The Jmicron controller that is used to give the 965 boards a PATA
port is a piece of junk. It's supported in kernels 2.6.19 and above but
it has weird behavior unrelated to the driver, I'm talking about thing
you see in the BIOS. If you use the SATA ports on the Intel ICH8R you'll
be fine.
As for motherboards, I have the Abit AB9 Pro, I don't recommend it. Lm
sensors doesn't work because Abit has their damn uGuru stuff which they
support in Windows only. I've been happy with MSI, I've built three
machines using various MSI boards and they've been reliable and I haven't
had any Linux issues with them. However all of those machines were AMD
A64s of various flavors, I don't know how well their Core2 boards work.
.
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