Want to build a new Computer for Linux as mine is really quite old

Invasion

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Was thinking of building a new System as mine is really quite out of date had it about 7years or so:eek: AMD xp1800

Now this will be a Linux only system so what would you recommend ? or will I just be throwing good money away? My system at the minute is a XP1800+ processor with a KT4V Motherboard .

So what spec should I choose at what point will it be just throwing money away ?
 
You might as well get what you can afford IMO. Also im pretty sure Photoshop runs decently under Wine (http://appdb.winehq.org).

Personally I would go for some hardware that will last for a good few years. If the new Intel i7s are outside your budget, then the quad core Q6600s are awesome chips. Get a decent motherboard as well and 4gb RAM and your sorted. Might as well get a good graphics card as well the Nvidia 8800s are a good price these days.

Saying that though, that may well be very overkill for what you want. You could probably get away with a £400 box if you wanted.

Hope thats some help,
 
tntcoder said:
You might as well get what you can afford IMO. Also im pretty sure Photoshop runs decently under Wine (http://appdb.winehq.org).

Personally I would go for some hardware that will last for a good few years. If the new Intel i7s are outside your budget, then the quad core Q6600s are awesome chips. Get a decent motherboard as well and 4gb RAM and your sorted. Might as well get a good graphics card as well the Nvidia 8800s are a good price these days.

Saying that though, that may well be very overkill for what you want. You could probably get away with a £400 box if you wanted.

Hope thats some help,
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I would scavange parts in the market place of OCUK forum. tntcoder is right I would look out for second hand Q6600 and 8800GT/9*00GT series. $gb ram is so cheap nowadays.....
 
I'd go for a Deneb, cheap n cheerful motherboard, 4GB of RAM and use onboard graphics.

CPU - Probably about £170 when released
Motherboard - £65 (decent 780G)
RAM - £45 4GB DDR2-6400
Hard Drive - nice new 1Tb £80
Case - Antec NSK6580 with 430W PSU - £70
DVD-RW - £20

Job done and excellent price. Total being roughly £450.

Will go like clappers too and be perfect for Linux use.
 
Invasion said:
I use my computer for the internet,email, and Photography. Mainly photo editing using gimp now as I cant use Photoshop on Linux.
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If you are looking to buy new components, go for:

Look for an energy saving cpu. There's absolutely no need in a quad core malarky. I mean seriously what on earth do you need 4 cpu cores for? Or right, one for email, one for browsing, one for photography and one to just spin doing nothing? Talk about complete waste and overkill.

Something like Jetway J7F4K 1.2GHz Eden, but a with a bit more umph will do you fine, just choose one with a bit more powerful cpu, about 4gb of ram and you will be fine, while saving a ton on power consumption. Once you rule games out, you generally find there is no need in silly specs.
 
Outcast said:
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install wine
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I have wine Installed now Just got to load up Photoshop ;)

rsatd said:
If you are looking to buy new components, go for:

Look for an energy saving cpu. There's absolutely no need in a quad core malarky. I mean seriously what on earth do you need 4 cpu cores for? Or right, one for email, one for browsing, one for photography and one to just spin doing nothing? Talk about complete waste and overkill.

Something like Jetway J7F4K 1.2GHz Eden, but a with a bit more umph will do you fine, just choose one with a bit more powerful cpu, about 4gb of ram and you will be fine, while saving a ton on power consumption. Once you rule games out, you generally find there is no need in silly specs.
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I have to say this is the response I thought I was going to get on this post and agree the quad core would be overkill.
Going to have a look at the Jetway so the processor is embedded in the Mobo ??
 
Something like Jetway J7F4K 1.2GHz Eden, but a with a bit more umph will do you fine, just choose one with a bit more powerful cpu, about 4gb of ram and you will be fine, while saving a ton on power consumption. Once you rule games out, you generally find there is no need in silly specs.
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Bad idea and quite silly. Costs £100 just for motherboard and CPU and is great if you want a tiny tiny box. However, £140 will buy you a tri-core Phenom (nevermind cores, it's a SUBSTANTIALLY faster processor) and a 780G motherboard.

I know which one I'd rather have. You could even go down a notch from that and pick up an AMD 5050e and 780G motherboard for the same price as the VIA bits.

If you happen to download a nice HD trailer or want to watch a film of quality like that on your 1.2Ghz Eden - good luck in finding it acceptable ;) Then we could get on to GIMP and Wine (CS) performance......
 
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Just try and get yourself a motherboard or other bits of hardware, that have everything on them supported under Linux. No point rushing out and buying a board or hardware to find that you have to spend ages reading through material and then ages editing files to make something work, or that it simply won't work.

Phoronix do motherboard and hardware reviews specifically for Linux, so you should check them out.

I'm planning on building a Linux box in the new year myself, based around an E8400. As for the motherboard, I'll wait and see what the new year brings in. I've always liked Intels series of Executive and Classic boards as they're a lot more "basic" in terms of overclocking options, which is fine for me as I don't overclock my Linux boxes. They do have boards for overclockers in their Extreme series though. And as for their hardware support, I personally think they're probably one of the best for Linux. I was looking at the DG45ID, but reading up about it, in mid-2008 it was reported to have problems with third party software that made HD playback very poor, it also doesn't have any PS/2 slots (as far as I can remember) which I need for my Model M Keyboard.
 
How about this Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H AMD 780G Micro-ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000 3.10GHz (Socket AM2)

That would only come to £119.98

Any thoughts
 
If you want lower power, I'd make sure you stick with a Nvidia 8xxx version (or higher) with 512 ram as the newer drivers are starting to support offloading cpu intensive stuff like decoding HDTV to the graphics card. So if you want to watch DVD or something, that'll handle it. Cheaper CPU. Everyone's a winner.
 
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