[internetworkers] Thinking about a new PC and moving to Linux

Scott Chilcote scottchilcote at earthlink.net
Wed Apr 9 13:25:17 EDT 2008


Lyman Green wrote:
> I've been looking at maybe building a new PC.
> 
> Along with that, I am really not happy with the idea of spending about 
> 400-500 bucks for Vista Ultimate and Microsoft Office.  So I'm thinking 
> it might be time for me to move to Linux and an open source solution for 
> my word processing, etc.

Hi Lyman,

Just in case you're interested, I have a great motherboard that you 
could use.  It's an ASUS M2N-E SLI board based on the nvidia nForce 500 
SLI chipset.

You can read about it here:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16813131096

It works great with Linux, I had the original one running Ubuntu Gutsy 
with no problems.  Combined with a dual core Athlon 64 X2 and a good 
video card, it will run current OpenGL and DirectX games (e.g. Crysis) 
very well.

It's still sealed, it was a warranty replacement.  I bought the original 
new in November for $115, will sell this one for $50.

Scott C.



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