William Coulter wrote:
> I am looking into building another PC. I think that my PC is dieing and
> I want a working one before it finally dies. I see all these intel duo
> and quad CPUs. Are they 64bit processors? Is that what you are going
> to buy these days? As you can tell, I haven't bought a PC in years. Is
> 64bit Linux mature enough for an install and run? What do you
> recommend: intel or AMD? Please no flames here. I have seen some
Yes, you can run a64 bit OS on either current Intel Core Duo (and
others) or AMD Athlon 64 FX or Opteron.
Personally, I run 32bit OS on all my capable 64but CPU's (workstations).
I don't run any software that can take advantage. As far as OS
experience I found no better performance with a 64bit OS, only driver
headaches. Currently 64bit driver support has greatly improved however.
YMMV, give it a shot though if you like, you probably won't have issues
with a 64bit OS.
> Motherboards with Nvida SLI chip sets on board. What is it? Is it a
> video card? Does it work with Linux?
SLI is running 2 video cards in parallel for increased frame rates. High
end gaming on high resolution monitors is the candidate for this set up.
And yes you can run SLI under linux with the NVIDIA drivers "out of the
box". SLI seems to have more support under AMD CPU/Mobo combo's.
>I would like to run 8gigs of RAM,
> but not right now. I will be making it my expansion buy for next year.
> I want to be able to run some virtualization of XP so I can play games
> and virtualize other Linux's for learning.
VMWARE server runs great under linux and it's free!
There are OSS virtualization projects, however VMWARE server
is the most polished and easy to use. Performance is almost native.
I run vmware workstation 6.0 and absolutely love the dual monitor
support for VM's
>
> Thanks for any help,
> William
>
> PS. what is bad, is the fact that I used to know this kind of stuff like
> the back of my hand.
Me too! It had been a good 3-4 years before I build my last workstation
so I had to relearn just about everything.
I currently have my E6750 Conroe (2.66GHz) running @ 3.66GHz rock stable
on air cooling.
I built a Intel Core Duo (E6750) system last year. Here are my
researched hardware picks. I am also happy to say that it is all rock
stable.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 65W
Dual-Core Processor - People have been overclocking this sucker to
3.85GHz if you are into that sort of thing
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115028
or
a little cheaper.. E6750 both have 1033MHz bus
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115029
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Non SLI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128059
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148069
Buy the best power supply you can afford.
HTH
-Chris
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