Hardware for FC8

Hello,

I am thinking of building a new PC to run my linux and possibly XP on
a partition. Here is what I am planning to use for the Motherboard,
processor etc. I would appreciate if anyone has used these and can
tell me how these hardwares are supported in Fedora Core 8 (and soon
moving to Core 10).

MoBo- Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H or ASUS M3A78-EM
CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600 or 6000
Chipset - AMD 780G
Onboard Video - ATI Radeon HD 3200
Audio - Realtek ALC889A or Realtek ALC1200

Of course the rest are usual stuff. It will have a Firewire port.

Any recommendations?

Thanks, NS

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:43 -0800, sridhar wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am thinking of building a new PC to run my linux and possibly XP on a
> partition. Here is what I am planning to use for the Motherboard,
> processor etc. I would appreciate if anyone has used these and can tell
> me how these hardwares are supported in Fedora Core 8 (and soon moving
> to Core 10).
>
> MoBo- Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H or ASUS M3A78-EM CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2
> 5600 or 6000
> Chipset - AMD 780G
> Onboard Video - ATI Radeon HD 3200
> Audio - Realtek ALC889A or Realtek ALC1200
>
> Of course the rest are usual stuff. It will have a Firewire port.
>
> Any recommendations?
>
> Thanks, NS

I just built a new system for Fedora 10, here are the specs

GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P
E8400
8G OCZ Gold DDR2 800 (This is very good RAM but getting DDR2 800 was a
mistake, I should have bought DDR2-1000)
Seagate 640G drive
CHAINTECH GSE95GT DDR2 512MB GeForce 9500 GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR2
Coolermaster 750W supply (this is overkill, I had it laying around, If I
were buying a supply just for this machine I would have gotten a 550Q).
Thermalright Extreme 120 cooler, Scyth 120mm Fan

There were all sorts of rebates and discounts from Newegg so the whole
thing cost me around $400 not including the cooler,case and supply which
I already had.

You need Fedora 10 for this system because the MACs require 2.6.27.

I'm running it at 4GHz, the thing that stopped me from running it at
4.5Ghz is the RAM. The lowest speed that the Gigabyte BIOS will run the
RAM is 2X the basic clock (which would be 500MHz if you are running an
E8400 (the multiplier is 9 on the E8400). Sys_basher showed a bunch of
RAM errors at 4.5GHz which is why I suggest that you get DDR2-1000
instead of DDR2-800, the price difference is small. Sys_basher showed the
system to be solid at 4.2GHz. I'm running it at 4.05GHz to give me a
little more margin (450MHz * 9).

A word about the Thermalright Extreme 120. It's huge, really really huge.
I can't put the side panel on the case, CoolerMaster Wavemaster (not
recommended, I had it laying around from an older machine). However it is
an incredible cooler, at 4.05GHz the maximum Core temperature reached
during an 8 hour sys_basher run is 46C. The maximum temperature at 3GHz
was 36C.

http://www.polybus.com/sys_basher_web/

One more quirk, if you install from a USB FLASH key make sure that it
only has 1 partition. My basic F10 Live USB 8G FLASH key has three
partitions and the Gigabyte BIOS hung when I tried to boot from it. I
ended up doing the F10 install from a DVD. I later tried a 1G USB FLASH
key with a single partition with F10 Live, it booted from that just fine.