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Building a new computer 2

Posted by JLP on February 9th, 2006

Again I’ve been given the task of building a new computer. And, again, not for me. It is for my dad’s co-worker this time. His budget is about 1000 € and this should include an LCD monitor. He also wishes to try out Linux so all components should have good enough support for Linux. This is what I currently have in mind:

  • Motherboard: Gigabyte K8NF-9
  • Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+, socket 939, Venice core
  • Memory: 512 MiB GeiL PC3200 Value
  • Graphics card: Gigabyte GV-NX66T128D GeForce 6600GT 128MiB DDR3 PCI-E x16
  • Hard drive: 160GiB Hitachi GST T7K250 7200rpm 8MiB cache Serial ATA2/300
  • DVD drive: NEC ND-4551A 16X with LabelFlash
  • Case: GMC H60
  • Power supply: LC 550W LC6550G
  • LCD display: Samsung 730BF
  • Mouse: Logitech B85 UltraX
  • Keyboard: Logitech UltraX

What do you think? What concerns me the most is the motherboard. How well is nVidia nForce 4 chipset supported in Linux? I’ll have to check this out before settling down on the final configuration. If anyone has any experiences I’d be more than glad to hear about them.

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4 Responses to “Building a new computer 2”

  1. Shrutarshi Basu Says:
    February 9th, 2006 at 16:35:15

    Sounds good to me. The GeForce line is well supported in Linux, so I suppose the nForce chipsets should be as well. By the way do you know anyone who has used arch Linux?

  2. JLP Says:
    February 9th, 2006 at 17:19:26

    Unfortunately I don’t know anyone who is using Arch Linux. I was considering to try it out about a year ago, but then I decided to just jump directly to 64-bit Gentoo Linux for AMD64.

  3. Shobhik Says:
    February 18th, 2006 at 11:39:08

    The motherboard should be fine. My crappy computer came with a Gigabyte motherboard and the default OS was RedHat Linux. Which I had to uninstall becuase the rest of my family can’t even use windows properly!

    I’d recommend the GeForce 6600 Gfx card though.

  4. Andrej Says:
    May 19th, 2006 at 20:38:27

    NForce 4 works under Linux. I have Athlon64 3000+ on Epox 9NPA+, running Debian Linux 3.1 with updates from testing branch. In kernel 2.6.8 I had to install NVidia binary drivers for network card, in 2.6.12 and 2.6.15 it works without additional drivers.
    By all means keep the NVidia graphics in your choice. I made the mistake of buying ATI Radeon X800GTO and I didn’t yet manage to get OpenGL working under Linux (after several months and several ATI binary driver revisions).

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