Building on to my previous post, I've now set up a payment plan and have purchased, for roughly $220...
A Intel 850 form (?) socket 478 mainboard, with onboard sound, 3d video, and ethernet. 6 PCI slots, 1 4x AGP slot, 1 CNR slot, 4 DIMM memory slots ( 2 PC133 SDRAM, 2 DDR ).
An Intel Celeron with a clock speed of 1.8 GHz, a standard ATX case with 4 5.25" bays and quite a few 3.5" bays, a 550 watt power supply with extra power cables, a SCSI controller card, an 80mm case fan kit and a 120mm case fan kit, heatsink and fan for the processor.
I should be up and running with my old geForce 4 MX 420, my 30GB and 40GB drives, dual monitors and a borrowed CD-R. Then it's Mandrake install time.
I don't know about you, but living without my computer is very easy. I'm only on my parents for about 30 minutes a day, and I have so many other things to do. I'm definately happy that I'm getting my new one repaired and upgraded, but it is better without one.
Thats awesome that you got a new one, and that motherboard/cpu is a good deal! Good luck with the mandrake install, it really is easy. Its great to have another linux user on the boards!
As I am not up with my comp lingo, what is a CNR slot? In any case that is just a little more powerful than my computer.
How was your experience with Linux?
Different opinion now that you tried it? I mean, there is nothing wrong with dual booting Win98 and Linux.
I myself dual boot Linux and Windows98, But I *rarely* go into windows because I am far to dumb to get it to work. (:
AlexMax: I don't get the parts in the mail until at least Monday. I'll probably fool with Linux later that week.
well sounds like fun make ure not to melt the proccessor again
I dual boot 98 and mandrake 7.1 (soon to be 8.2). I keep having trouble with my graphics card (GF 4 MX420) because the version I have doesn't support anything similar to it.
I have the exact same video card.
Then use a current distro.
I also beleive there was a discussion in the Programing forums about someone having a problem with that video card, take a look.
I'm online at school alot, but at home and during the summer, I only get online like twice a day, in which I post here.
Anyways, glad things will be going good for you. If you have any trouble with the Linux install, such as some of your hardware not being recognized, feel free to ask us (don't give up right off the bat)