Another point I forgot to ask. Is the on board video contained in the motherboard or the PC. I see specifications for both and am not sure what this is about. Does the RAM have to be compatible with all components: motherboard, video, audio, etc?
Joe On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 21:50:04 -0600 Neil Mayhew <n...@neil.mayhew.name> wrote: > Hi Joe, > > You might want to look at the new AMD Ryzen processors. They have a > very good price/performance ratio, and MemEx has a number of > reasonably-priced motherboards for them. > > You should also consider using a discrete graphics card. They can be > had for about $50 and will easily exceed the performance of onboard > graphics. > > Lastly, if you're going to using Linux, think about whether or not you > want to use proprietary drivers. This might affect your choice of > graphics card. > > Intel onboard graphics typically has good open-source drivers. > > Hope this helps, > > —Neil _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
