I am building a new desktop machine for home use (no gaming, but we will output DVD and MPEG movies to the TV). I would appreciate the Debian community's opinion regarding my hardware selection, as this is the first non-MS machine that I am building. I have tried to select components known to work with either Debian or Linux in general, these are the components:
Athlon 64 5200+ http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUDetail.aspx?id=39 Asus M3A board http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1934&l1=3&l2=149&l3=592&l4=0 (we need both IDE and SATA, as my current 500GB hard drives are IDE) 2 GB Kingston Value memory One of these video cards: http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1720&l1=2&l2=6&l3=551&l4=0 http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=2&l2=8&l3=634&l4=0&model=2051&modelmenu=1 I am leaning towards the second card because of the quiet fanless design, but I am a bit concerned about a fanless card. It also mentions OpenGL 2.0 compliance, which sounds good. Optiarc AD-7200S DVD±RW sata DVD burner http://www.sonynec-optiarc.eu/en/exhibits/half-height-drives/ad-7200s This machine will likely flip flop between Debian and Fedora about once per year, with the occasional test drive of a different distro, if my past experience is an indicator. I am on a budget, so I tried to cut corners but not too many. Any advice and suggestions regarding the hardware mentioned are much appreciated. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
