[PD] [OT] PC hardware recommondations for Linux

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

You can get XP CPUs here, and they're cheap:

http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=CPU

.hc

On Jun 2, 2005, at 11:20 AM, B. Bogart wrote:

> Hey Frank+all,
>
> Thanks for your advice. Turns out I can't get any XP CPUs anymore!!! :(
> So I need to get a Athlon64 machine.
>
> Is AMD64 a problem under linux? (running a 32 bit linux and not 64).
>
> I wanted to get the last fastest 32 bit AMD machine, but I missed the
> boat. Anyhow I should expect in terms of 64 bit problems with
> linux/nvidia drivers, PD in particular?
>
> Will I be safe running a 32 bit linux and ignoring the fact that it is  
> a
> 64 bit machine in the meantime?
>
> I feel too close to the "high-tech" edge now, which I try and stay away
> from...
>
> Thanks for any advice, thanks all for responding to my original post.
>
> b>
>
> Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> Hallo,
>> B. Bogart hat gesagt: // B. Bogart wrote:
>>
>>
>>> This is pretty off topic.
>>
>>
>> Then why not go over to pd-ot? ;) Acutally I think, from time to time
>> talking about good hardware for Pd is on-topic here as well. Do you
>> know the "hardware" area on puredata.org?
>>
>>
>>> I'm trying to figure out what PC to buy for my next linux machine.  
>>> This
>>> machine is going to be specifically for PD/Gem stuff, maybe a little
>>> video here and there, but is meant to be a machine I don't depend on  
>>> day
>>> to day, but can lease for installations and/or performance stuff. So  
>>> it
>>> has to be solid.
>>>
>>> My current PC is a duron 800 Abit KT7 with geforce2 card in it. I'm
>>> hoping to get some performance getting close to my g4 1.25Ghz  
>>> powerbook
>>> with Radeon 9600.
>>>
>>> For the graphics I'm looking at the Asus N6600 (256MB, FX6600) but  
>>> I'm
>>> stuck on the mainboard. And will probably be running an AMD XP 3000+  
>>> or
>>> 3200+
>>
>>
>> Last week I was shopping for a new machine, which has replaced my main
>> machine now. As such, I also wanted a quiet machine, which means: no
>> P4 but Athlon64.
>>
>> As I'm a bit on a budget, I bought the 3000+ model. For a mainboard I
>> choose the ABit AV8+ with Firewire, which was only a half good choice
>> unfortunatly.
>>
>> The reason is, that using the powersaving funcitonality ("Cool &
>> Quiet") leads to crashes, so I had to disable it. I strongly suspect,
>> that a wrong ACPI implementation on the board is the reason for this.
>> I hope, that the next kernels (> 2.6.11) will be able to work around
>> this. Also the ABit board is the wrong choice, if you want to
>> undervolt your processor, it's more targetted at overclockers, not at
>> silence freaks like I am.  But if powersaving is not important to you,
>> then this board is nice, everything as far as I tested it, is
>> supported with newer kernels (> 2.6.10 for the onboard ethernet).
>>
>> The AV8+ is an AGP board, which is good, because I want to reuse my
>> old Matrox-card.
>>
>> Asus should be fine, too, but I think it's a bit expensive. Another
>> good brand to consider is MSI boards, which I was running on my
>> previous two machines. Maybe I should have bought an MSI this time as
>> well?
>>
>> I cannot recommend any graphics cards as I don't run hardware for
>> which vendors don't supply enough specs, so I'm more or less stuck
>> with older cards.
>>
>> I would thus say, that Amd64 in general can still be a bit shaky, so
>> your choice of an older Athlon XP model will surely be easier to get
>> running in a solid way and of course it's much cheaper.
>>
>> Ciao
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