Re: [opensuse] Advice on new hardware Paul Ollion schreef:
> On Thursday 06 March 2008 16:30, Oddball wrote:
>   
>> Paul Ollion schreef:
>>     
>>> On Wednesday 05 March 2008 21:05, Oddball wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Paul Ollion schreef:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Wednesday 05 March 2008 07:41, Monkey 9 wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Greg Freemyer schreef:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Felix Miata  wrote:
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> On 2008/03/04 14:56 (GMT+0100) Paul Ollion apparently typed:
>>>>>>>>  > I am considering the purchase of a not too expensive  windows
>>>>>>>>  > free PC, mainly for office work and I would like to know your
>>>>>>>>  > opinion about the following config proposed by the retailer to be
>>>>>>>>  > sure there will be no unsolvable problems with openSuSE 10.2
>>>>>>>>  > or10.3
>>>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>>>  > Motherboard : Asus P5GC-MX/775
>>>>>>>>  > Processor Intel Pentium IV-641,  3.2 Ghz /S 775 - 2 Mo
>>>>>>>>  > DDR  Go
>>>>>>>>  > HDD 80 Go 7200 rps SATA 8 Mo
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  I have no experience with that product. I did install 10.3 on a
>>>>>>>> slightly older P5GD1-VM just last Friday.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  Understand that Asus motherboards have a good reputation, but that
>>>>>>>> Asus the company does not,
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>> Agreed on the Asus the company issue.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We are putting together a PO for a replacement set of machines at
>>>>>>> work.  We suggested Asus to the integrator and they highly
>>>>>>> recommended we go with Intel instead due to maintenance and support
>>>>>>> issues.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> FYI: My post about having to tweak voltage levels of the RAM related
>>>>>>> to a couple different Asus MBs we have here.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Greg
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Indeed, Asus has very bad support, in that sense that they have a
>>>>>> rather strange system to report your problem, and it takes much too
>>>>>> long before you have the solution that fits.
>>>>>> Elite has good boards,
>>>>>> M9.
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Thanks Felix, Greg and M9
>>>>>
>>>>> Your three advices are unanimous to make me avoid Asus products because
>>>>> of their bad support.
>>>>> That's what I will do and I am now examining Elite boards.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards.
>>>>>           
>>>> Take your time, as you will likely use your "new' PC for some time..
>>>> and let us know what you went for.. ;)
>>>>
>>>> M9.
>>>>         
>>> Thanks M9
>>>
>>> My retailer cannot provide Elite motherboards, but we found an MSI one
>>> with a Intel chipset that could do instead. it has all the modern usual
>>> connectors and  Is  interesting  for us with  the presence of parrallel
>>> and serial ports which will allow the employment of some old printers and
>>> mice.
>>>  I hope there will not be any major problems with it.but will it run
>>> under openSuSE 10.2 or shall we have to use 10.3 ?
>>>
>>> The card type is MSI  -  945 GCM5-f V2
>>>
>>> it has Intel chipset  945 GC   - ICH 7 for USB, SATA, bus master, IDE,
>>> PCI, ACPI2
>>>       
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>>
>>
>> They both won't likely be any problem, sometimes it is wise to look what
>> kind a videocard you want/can use (if there is one onboard with shared
>> ram, look at the max share size.
>> These onboard cards usualy run instantly, but if you want 'heavy
>> gaming', or extensive 'cad' use, you should need the more the better,
>> and if the board supports dual channel ram, that would be swell.)
>>     
>
> Thanks M9
>  I forgot to mention the video controller is Intel GMA 950 I suppose it is 
> enough for office use and viewing some DVDs
>   
Paul, that won't be a trouble at all.. ;)

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