[plug] recommendations for new high end system (dual cpu)

[Christopher Darby]

i dont know if AMD has a dual processor motherboard avaliable for its
processors but certainly an Intel based system would be sufficient, for
video card a S3 Trio3D AGP 4Mb video card would be perfect....it is
cheap and good for a no frills video card.  I have had no problems with
SCSI on the motherboard but if you can look for an Adaptec chip as they
are the best avaliable in my opinion, or a Buslogic SCSI chip if adaptec
is unavaliable

Chris Darby


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bevan Broun [SMTP:bevanb at ee.uwa.edu.au]
> Sent:	Wednesday, 13 October 1999 2:01 PM
> To:	plug at linux.org.au
> Subject:	[plug] recommendations for new high end system (dual
> cpu)
> 
> Im getting a new system for work which is going to be running linux
> primarily and NT via vmware. Ive read good things about the new AMD
> processor but I dont really know much about CPU internals. 
> 
> RAM will be 128, disk will be ide but a fast wide scsi adaptor is also
> needed. Any bad experiance with scsi built in to motherboard? Any
> recomendations for the video card (nothing too fancy needed)
> 
> Im most concerned with reliablity and devices being supported by
> linux.
> 
> TIA
> 
> BB
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