rdeschene2
12-14-2006, 10:39 PM
Just as an FYI that will hopefully help others.
In the last week or so I successfully installed Suse 10.1 (purchased, boxed set) on the following. This is definitely older technology but that's what I tend to do: upgrade hardware when most/all components are 2-3X faster than what I'm using (MHz, bus bandwidth, etc) and do so using new hardware, but 6-12month old technology. The patches and modules have almost certainly caught up by then, I often get some pretty good discounts, and it's a significant upgrade for us.
Biostar Geforce 6100-M9, with an Athlon 64 3200+ CPU, 1GB PC3200 RAM
- chipsets:
Northbridge nvidia GeForce 6100
Southbridge nvidia GeForce 410
audio Realtek ALC655
network Realtek RTL8201BL / RTL8201CL
- monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 957MB which I actually selected as a 950P during the installation.
This installation went very smoothly, and from what I can see the following "just works":
- stereo audio
- network connection to my DSL modem via my Netgear router (10/100, but my router's only 10/100 and my internet connection is only 3)
- 1280x1024x16bit output to my CRT monitor
- USB mouse
- PS/2 keyboard
- internal USB connection to combination card reader/floppy drive
- internal floppy drive connection to combination card reader/floppy drive
- apcupsd connection (via rear USB port) to APC Back-UPS and its daemon
- HP LaserJet 4P printer connected to parallel port (will not die, has a very low cost per page, and prints an excellent monochrome 600dpi)
- 3 Gb/s SATA to hard drive
- IDE connection to HD and DVD burner
When browsing, switching between tabs, etc. it is definitely snappier than our old nvidia MX440 with 64MB RAM. Mind you, that was on an AGP 2X card, plugged into a MB with Celeron-900MHz, 512MB RAM, ATA/100 IDE hard drive and all the slower buses between all of these components !
Of course booting up, fsck, connecting to an SD card are all faster. Basically every use of the computer is faster.
Like I said before, if almost EVERY COMPONENT is 2-3X faster I'm sure I'll see a big difference. And to me, that's worth the money.
Yours in pragmatic-land,
Rick D.
Brockville, Canada
In the last week or so I successfully installed Suse 10.1 (purchased, boxed set) on the following. This is definitely older technology but that's what I tend to do: upgrade hardware when most/all components are 2-3X faster than what I'm using (MHz, bus bandwidth, etc) and do so using new hardware, but 6-12month old technology. The patches and modules have almost certainly caught up by then, I often get some pretty good discounts, and it's a significant upgrade for us.
Biostar Geforce 6100-M9, with an Athlon 64 3200+ CPU, 1GB PC3200 RAM
- chipsets:
Northbridge nvidia GeForce 6100
Southbridge nvidia GeForce 410
audio Realtek ALC655
network Realtek RTL8201BL / RTL8201CL
- monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 957MB which I actually selected as a 950P during the installation.
This installation went very smoothly, and from what I can see the following "just works":
- stereo audio
- network connection to my DSL modem via my Netgear router (10/100, but my router's only 10/100 and my internet connection is only 3)
- 1280x1024x16bit output to my CRT monitor
- USB mouse
- PS/2 keyboard
- internal USB connection to combination card reader/floppy drive
- internal floppy drive connection to combination card reader/floppy drive
- apcupsd connection (via rear USB port) to APC Back-UPS and its daemon
- HP LaserJet 4P printer connected to parallel port (will not die, has a very low cost per page, and prints an excellent monochrome 600dpi)
- 3 Gb/s SATA to hard drive
- IDE connection to HD and DVD burner
When browsing, switching between tabs, etc. it is definitely snappier than our old nvidia MX440 with 64MB RAM. Mind you, that was on an AGP 2X card, plugged into a MB with Celeron-900MHz, 512MB RAM, ATA/100 IDE hard drive and all the slower buses between all of these components !
Of course booting up, fsck, connecting to an SD card are all faster. Basically every use of the computer is faster.
Like I said before, if almost EVERY COMPONENT is 2-3X faster I'm sure I'll see a big difference. And to me, that's worth the money.
Yours in pragmatic-land,
Rick D.
Brockville, Canada