[H-GEN] Recommendations for AMD 64bit H/W

[Raymond Smith]

Hi Ronald,

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:38:29PM +1000, Ronald Bradford wrote:
> I'm wanting to upgrade my Linux server, so I'm going to take the plunge 
> and buy new H/W.  I've sort of decided to go with the AMD Athlon, to 
> trial both 64 bit, and AMD, both of which I have neither tried.  Before 
> I rush out and buy a motherboard, could anybody give me recommendations, 
> or more specifically bad experiences of linux incompatibility.

I recently bought the following system:
- Athlon 64 3800+
- Asus A8N-E Socket 939 nForce 4 Motherboard
- 2x512Mb Kingston/Kingmax PC3200 DDR RAM
- Maxtor 160Gb SATA
- Leadtek Winfast PX6600 GT TDH 128Mb PCI-E
- LG 16x DVD Black
- Antec Sonata II + Extra Antec 120mm Fan

For $1668 from Umart Online in Milton. So far everything is working
perfectly for me under SuSE 10.0. 

The Graphics card is *not* what you are looking for -- not sure what 
other people would advise. However, I heartily recommend the Antec 
Sonata II case: neat and very, very quite. Almost MacIntosh levels 
of peace.

Cheers,

Raymond
-- 
raymond at humbug.org.au