I am building a new desktop machine for home use (no gaming, but we will output DVD and MPEG movies to the TV). I would appreciate the Phoronix community's opinion regarding my hardware selection, as this is the first non-MS machine that I am building. I have tried to select components known to work with Linux in general, these are the components:
Athlon 64 5200+
Asus M3A board
(we need both IDE and SATA, as my current 500GB hard drives are IDE)
2 GB Kingston Value memory
One of these video cards:
I am leaning towards the second card because of the quiet fanless design, but I am a bit concerned about a fanless card. It also mentions OpenGL 2.0 compliance, which sounds good.
Optiarc AD-7200S DVD?RW sata DVD burner
This machine will likely flip flop between Debian and Fedora about once per year, with the occasional test drive of a different distro. I am on a budget, so I tried to cut corners but not too many. Any advice and suggestions regarding the hardware mentioned are much appreciated. Thanks.
Athlon 64 5200+
Asus M3A board
(we need both IDE and SATA, as my current 500GB hard drives are IDE)
2 GB Kingston Value memory
One of these video cards:
I am leaning towards the second card because of the quiet fanless design, but I am a bit concerned about a fanless card. It also mentions OpenGL 2.0 compliance, which sounds good.
Optiarc AD-7200S DVD?RW sata DVD burner
This machine will likely flip flop between Debian and Fedora about once per year, with the occasional test drive of a different distro. I am on a budget, so I tried to cut corners but not too many. Any advice and suggestions regarding the hardware mentioned are much appreciated. Thanks.
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