New PC
- October 20th, 2008
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Well Ive been away for the last 4 days or I would have blogged about this sooner, but Last week I went and bought a shiny new PC. The old one was getting a bit slow and annoying, and it was time to upgrade.
So I went out and bought a nice load of components and build a beautiful new machine.
It includes:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
ASUS P5Q Motherboard
ASUS Nvidia 9500GT 512mb DDR3 Graphics card
Samsung 22x DVD Writer
LC6550GP “Green Power” Power supply
Nexus Caterpillar Silent System case
320GB Seagate HDD
4GB Kingston RAM
Overall I’m incredibly happy with it, its fast, quiet and works great with Linux. I’m running Intrepid Kubuntu with KDE4 (which is beautiful, just wish they would fix/replace that mess that is konqueror) with my old dual head setup and it works a charm.
And the obligatory photo
Why Nvidia? Wouldn’t ATI make more sense?
TREM!
I read in a couple of places that the P5Q mobo has problems with Ubuntu r.e. SATA. Any experience with this? Just I’m soon to buy a new mobo and may get an older ASUS board because of problems with newer ones.
@devolute
Ive not had any problems with it yet – everything has worked out of the box for me, with the obvious exception of having to install nvidia drvers.
But then again, I may have just got lucky…