Re: [PLUG] Linux System Hardware??

[Gyoza <gyoza@comcast.net>]

Jesse Huestis wrote:

> I find myself needing to spend some money on hardware before the end 
> of the year.  Got to love creative accounts.  Anyway, I was thinking 
> of buying barbones system or a motherboard, a CPU or 2 and a bit of 
> RAM.  I have up to $800, and really don't know what is hot these days. 
> Now I doubt any of you out there have an opinion.  La la.  Thanks in 
> advance.



With $800 to spend I would look into some of the faster AMD CPU(s), 
maybe one or more Serial ATA drives, an nVIDIA video card, and a flat 
panel display.

I prefer CRTs, but the space saving and portability of a flat panel 
display are big benefits.

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