woody/sarge on Barton MoBo? kt600 and/or which nvidia

[Jason Clinton]

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On Friday 07 November 2003 05:54 pm, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> Could you send me the entire system specs?  I was thinking of the 
> following system parts from newegg.com
> 	Samsung CDRW/DVD Combo Drive (Beige)		$62
> 		8mb Cache, Model SM-352BRNS
> 	Western Digital 200GB SATA			$192
> 		WD2000JD 7,200 RPM 8MB
> 	A7V600 ASUS					$80

Only 2.6 supports SATA, USB2 and AGP 8X on that MoBo.

> 	TRUE480						$83
> 	AMD ATHLON XP 3000 "Barton" 400MHz		$209
> 	memory	1gig	- TBD	-  what do you suggest?

No preference. Whatever DDR matches your FSB.

> 	Video		- TBD	-  what do you suggest?

Both ATI and NVidia's Linux drivers have known issues. ATI currently has the 
better hardware. If you game occasionally, you need a card with vertex and 
pixel shading pipelines. I would recommend any of the low end 9000 series 
ATI's.

> Is it worth the extra ~$200 to go w/ a 400MHzFSB?  how much performance 
> is really gained from the combination of:

Yes. If you compile things, anyways. Since you're in to Java, the extra 
responsiveness would be nice. I can /almost/ not tell that I'm using a 
Java-based text editor for my web site work. ;)

My specs:

Gigabyte VIA KT600 (on board: audio, NIC, USB2, SATA)
Athlon XP Barton 2600+
512MB 400mHz DDR
ATI Radeon 7500
2 UDMA133 HD's totaling 140 GB
52x CD-Burner
2x DVD Burner
TV & Radio Tuner
SB Live! Audio
All USB Input Devices
2 Additional Ether (National Semi & 3COM)
Internal Pink Cathode Light for Pissing Contests ;)

I don't know if the on board audio and NIC work since I don't use them. 
Everything else is fine. Kernel 2.6-test9/XFree86-4.3.99.15.
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