From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 20 May 2002 15:41:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 20 May 2002 15:41:18 -0400 Received: from freeside.toyota.com ([63.87.74.7]:61445 "EHLO freeside.toyota.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 20 May 2002 15:41:16 -0400 Message-ID: <3CE95153.50701@lexus.com> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 12:41:07 -0700 From: J Sloan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020519 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Louis Garcia CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Planning on a new system In-Reply-To: <1021856882.1814.12.camel@tiger> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Louis Garcia wrote: >CPU: 2.2GHz IntelŪ PentiumŪ 4 Processor with 512K L2 cache > wow, bleeding edge - > >RAM: 256MB 266MHz DDR SDRAM > (?) only 256 MB? If it was my system, I'd rather have a P4 1.6 and 512 MB RAM for performance reasons RAM is so cheap it would be insane to go stingy on RAM >Graphics adapter 32MB NVIDIA ? GeForce2? MX200 AGP Graphics > Very solid card - actually you can get MX400 with 64 NB RAM for $55 or so - Basic X11 will work out of the box, but for any 3D work you will need to download the nvidia drivers from their website - Joe