Built a New Linux Computer
I felt bad doing comparisons
when Windows was on a Pentium 4 (2.2 ghz)
and Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) is on a G4, and Linux was on a much less powerful
machine.
Linux was running fine on a 600 mhz machine, but I wanted to see what it did
on a better machine.
Specs: Hard drive -- Maxtor 80 gig 7200 rpm (on sale this week at Best Buy) ---- $99. Motherboard -- MSI 745 Ultra with onboard sound and 4 USB ports (on sale about a month ago) -- $65. Memory 512 MB -- two 256 DDR 2100 (on sale at Best Buy this week) -- $35 each = $70. Video -- gForce2 MX400 with 64MB, AGP 4x (on sale at PC Club) -- $55. CPU -- AMD 1800+ (from PC Club) -- $99. CR-RW drive -- Samsung 40x-10x-32x (on sale somewhere a month ago) -- $39. Case -- 300 watt power supply (on sale at CompUSA last year) -- $35. Ethernet -- Siemans Speedstream 10/100 PCI (on sale last week at CompUSA) -- $5. (I didn't bother with a floppy drive.) ............ Total -- $468
Red Hat 7.3 recognized all hardware and the machine is running great.