Re: Recommendations for N00b try at DIY
- From: Oldtech <me@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:50:36 -0400
Rockinghorse Winner wrote:
I am going to try my hand at building a pc. I think I can handle the
mechanical chore of screwing it all together, but am trying to make sense of
the vast array of mobo's out there. I am looking for board in the <100.00
range that will work with the major cpu's and be compatible with Linux. I
want to keep the project under $500. Any recommendations?
I am thrilled with my MSI-K8NGM2-FID main board. I bought it from
http://ebtech.com with the installed and tested Sempron 3000+ 64 bit CPU
in socket 939 pin, with the AMD approved fan, delivered, $89.00.
I am in Florida.
This board has PS2 mouse and keyboard; SATA RAID; 2 USB ports, one
Firewire port, nVidia 6150 DVI and SVGA video out, plus more. It does
take upto 4 sticks of DDR RAM. (sets of two, in purple and in green
slots for dual channel). I stuck in PC3200 (400Mhz) in two sticks of
256 Mb, and two sticks of 128MB, for a total of 768MB RAM. 64MB is used
for onboard Video, leaving 704 MB for system.
First released and reviewed in Feb. 2006, some might think it a bit
'old'. Thus, the reason it is less expensive. Many of the prices of
the products at 3Btech appear OK in comparison with vendors Newegg, and
others at http://pricewatch.com
Read about it at:
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K8NGM2-FID
Also, are thereYou should order the $18.00 Chieftan 450 watt PSU, with the 24 pin
any other h/w *gotcha's* I should be aware of before I start collecting the
h/w?
connector plus the aux. 4 pin power connector, and it has SATA power.
Do the mobos work with both 64 and 32 bit chips?The 64 bit processor can run the 32 bit or the 64 bit Ubuntu AMD kernel.
I am running 64 bit Mepis (a fork of Ubuntu with KDE as the default
desktop) but, tested it with some 32 bit LiveCDroms, and it booted and
ran fine. Knoppix 5.1.1, Damn Small Linux, Frenzy, Kubuntu all worked.
I would prefer 32Almost all makers are offering very few 32bit processors in their
bit, but could I upgrade to a 64 bit chip later on?
line-ups.
What kind of interfaces
for peripherals should I be looking for?
I unplugged my Brother MFC-5 in 1 Laser printer, from the old box
Parallel port, plugged it right in here, works great.
What other peripherals? Web cam, and all my 5 digital cameras, three
kinds of external Firewire and USB hard drives, the USB sticks, ditto
all. Funny, Joystick (DB15) and Serial (DB9) ports are optional cables.
Logitech trackball is good. Speakers, 9-in-one SD card reader, all my
DVD burners, work great. Audio is available as 7:1 and seems to have
gotten great reviews against competition from ASUStek, and an obscure
thing from an almost unknown vendor, which the reviewer tossed out early
in his testing...
With the money saved, I grabbed a huge 500 GB hard drive.
*R* *H*
HTH.
.
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