RE: [MLUG] Re: my son wants to build a pimped up PC...

["Pottinger, Hardy J." <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

The guides at arstechnica.com are worthwhile reading:

http://arstechnica.com/guides.ars

Don't just read the current ones, dig a bit back, there's one on SFF boxes that might have good info for you.

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HARDY POTTINGER <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
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-----Original Message-----
From: EMAIL:PROTECTED on behalf of Mike Miller
Sent: Sun 4/1/2007 5:15 PM
To: MLUG membership
Subject: [MLUG] Re: my son wants to build a pimped up PC...
 
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Jonathan King wrote:

> Running Linux, of course.

Then let's put this on the members list.


> You just knew this was going to happen at some point, so it's not a 
> major surprise. He has enough money squirreled away to build a 
> low-endish system, so I might fork over for a little bit of it.

Nice.  I'm definitely not surprised!


> Small, quiet, and energy-efficient would be nice. I looked into mini- 
> and micro-itx stuff, but it looks like that's not the cheapest way to 
> start (although it's got the other qualifications down). Not being into 
> the stock PC hardware thing very much at this point, I'm not exactly 
> sure where to start looking for an appropriate mobo/processor 
> combination, especially given that I need everything supported by a 
> non-bleeding-edge kernel.
>
> I know some of the micro systems have built-in graphics, but I am 
> guessing we'll want something beefy enough to support something like 
> Beryl in style. Performance otherwise doesn't need to be phenomenal; 
> we're going to stick 1 GB in it on general principal, so everything will 
> be cached most of the time. :-)
>
> The case has to be super-cool, of course.If we went micro-itx, it would 
> probably end up being one of those bizarre custom enclosure things.

To get ideas of what you need to buy and how much you should be paying, 
I'd look at some of the places that build custom systems and offer certain 
default configurations.  Example of a place near me:

http://www.nanosys1.com/systems---upgrades-systems.html

Of course, you'll have to be sure that the hardware will play nicely with 
Linux, but that must usually not be a problem these days.  The graphics 
card will probably end up being just about the priciest part of the 
system.

Mike

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