2008/12/1 Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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.
> Rob > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > Rob, You're probably referring to this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249 Regards Chris
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