On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: >> > > I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money > built > a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: > > Decent Abit mainboard > AMD Athlon X2 4200+ > 2GB Corsair standard stuff > 2 x 250GB Samsung SATA HDD's (in Linux software MD RAID 0, it rocks) > dual layer DVD-+RW > 19" wide HannsG monitor > Good quality case from eBay with decent PSU > > It was a grand total of about £300 but I had to make sure I got good > components. Most important is the PSU as Rob says. I've always liked > Abit > motherboards. Foxconn are actually pretty good from my experience. > They > used to make Intel's own brand boards, not sure if they still do. > > The disk speed makes this computer feel very fast. >
I heard bad things about Foxconn boards and Linux a while ago, can't remember if it was posted here. I'm just a bit dubious now. I'm currently running an Athlon X2 3800+ and that seems pretty quick (I did have a Phenom X4 9600 but it died over the weekend and the Athlon X2 was the only thing I had which could chuck in the board). I could also recommend the Pentium Dual Core chips as they're also pretty quick (I had one before upgrading to the Phenom, it's now sitting in my wife's PC). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
