On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:58:03PM +0000, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > The computer consultant has actually printed out on a piece of > A5-sized paper just what he's offering. I'm going to ignore the > Intel Core i3-2100 with 4GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM and get the higher > spec. machine. > It will have Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz Socket LGA1155, MSI Z68S REV > B3 motherboard, 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 256MB > PCI-Express graphics, an SSD OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA instead > of a hard disk drive, a Samsung DVD-RW SATA, Onboard 7.1 channel HD > Audio, Onboard 10/100/1000 Mbps Lan, 802.11B/G/N WiFi, an ATX + > Cooler Master 450W PSU and NO OS. He knows I use Linux. He's going > to charge me £599 and I think it's worth the money, because if > anything goes wrong, he's just downstairs.
If you're going with an NVidia card, use a GT220 or 430. They are reasonably cheap, and are the highest end cards for which all functions are completely supported. The 8800GT is a power-sucking beast from a previous generation. -dsr- -- http://randomstring.org/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't fight for freedom by taking away rights. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120222172604.gu17...@randomstring.org
