Re: Computer parts...

[Adam Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Hello.  I was planning on building a computer from scratch with money I 
get
>during the holiday season (hey when you are still in highschool, you get
>free gifts!), and had a few questions.  I was planning on getting some 
sort
>of Asus motherboard and an Athlon Thunderbird chip (900 mhz or so, but 
im

Many cheap systems these days are barely stable at their "native" 
speeds, I really think overclocking isn't worth the pain.  The 
limiting factor on EVERY PC sold recently is most definitely not 
the CPU.

What do you intend to use the system for?

Investing in more memory, and if not SCSI, at least multiple 
IDE drives each on a seperate channel will keep your
system responsive under heavy load (which is what most people
mean by performance).  Install the OS's you intend to use
so that when running they both use multiple drives.

>peenna overclock it).  Will all of this hardware work with the newest 
Red
>Hat?  Also, what is suggested in terms of hardware.  I am planning on
>partitioning and running winblows on at least part of this computer.  
What
>in terms of hardware should I get?

Fujitsu or IBM drives, or at least Seagate.  Western Digital 
and Maxtor drives are a BAD investment.  Witness recent 
traffic on this list.

Avoid recent Linksys networking hardware.

USB printers and such do work under RH7.