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

[Jon L. Miller]

Since I've used mainly AMD for business systems and PII/III for High end
systems, I find the combination of AMD, EPoX or GigaByte, 128MB SDRAM
PC-100 and the Titan 5000 to be a good solid choice.  The question you
need to ask is what do you plan to do with the Linux box.  Also there is
a fix for the BIOS from EPoX to fix a minor problem when shutting down
the system it would do a OOPs after dismounting the drive(s).  
Adaptec is by far the more popular and maybe the best in SCSI controllers
and EPoX has a board with this controller on it (check out
http://www.epox.com/products/mboard/61bxbs_1.html).


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On 10/13/99, at 2:00 PM, Bevan Broun  wrote: 

>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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>Bevan Broun                                           ph (08) 9380 1587
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>Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering      
>University of Western Australia                                 rm. G70

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