[SOLVED] upgrading pc

[StarWolf]

i have a few questions about the parts i want to buy thought i would throw it around here



which of these two cpu/mbs will work best with kubuntu my system now is 2,8 p4 1 mg ram (wont need new hd sata 500g or ps have a 1100w)

(ill be buying 4g ram for this set up )

AMD FX-8120 3.1GHz Socket AM3+ Eight-Core Desktop Processor
ASRock 970DE3/U3S3 ATX AMD Motherboard
(221.00 US)

Intel Core i5-2300 2.8GHz LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor
BIOSTAR TZ68K+ ATX Intel Motherboard
(241.00)

will this video card have issues ?
(I have a nvida 6400 series vid card now )

EVGA 01G-P3-1302-LR GeForce 8400 GS 1GB 64-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Ready Video Card


let me know whats the best from a linux view as i haven't run windoze in 2 years .

[SteveRiley]

What will do with the machine?

When I was researching the parts for my son's gaming machine, the consensus across many review sites was that AMD's CPUs right now aren't too good for gaming. Most games can't take advantage of all those cores, so I went with an Intel Core i5-2500K. If you aren't gaming, then choice of CPU might not matter so much.

And you might want to do some research about whether the Z68's Rapid Storage and Smart Response technology are supported under Linux. I think Phoronix might have looked into that recently.

[vinnywright]

just my 2cents ..........I'v ben using this for quite some time and had no trouble with it ........I dont do gaming so..........but I do do some vid recoding/editing !!

it was a cheep 4-$500.00 or so laptop with HDMI out for watching vid on a big screen .

vinny@Vinnys-HP-G62:~$ sudo lshw
[sudo] password for vinny:
vinnys-hp-g62
description: Notebook
product: HP G62 Notebook PC (LD642AV)
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version: 0591130000202710010620100
serial: CNF1220GRP
width: 64 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.6 dmi-2.6 vsyscall32
configuration: boot=normal chassis=notebook family=103C_5335KV G=N L=CON B=HP S=G62 sku=LD642AV uuid=434E4631-3232-3047-5250-2C27D7CFDF91
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: 1425
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
physical id: 0
version: 54.57
serial: PX11R011Z0C549
slot: Base Board Chassis Location
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
physical id: 0
version: F.37
date: 04/07/2011
size: 1MiB
capacity: 1472KiB
capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect edd int13floppynec int13floppytoshiba int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int9keyboard int10video acpi usb biosbootspecification
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 370 @ 2.40GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 16
bus info: cpu@0
version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 370 @ 2.40GHz
slot: CPU
size: 1333MHz
capacity: 2400MHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 1066MHz
capabilities: x86-64 fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm arat tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid cpufreq
configuration: cores=2 enabledcores=2 threads=4
*-cache:0
description: L3 cache
physical id: 17
slot: L3 Cache
size: 3MiB
capacity: 3MiB
capabilities: synchronous internal write-through unified
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 19
slot: L2 Cache
size: 256KiB
capacity: 256KiB
capabilities: synchronous internal write-through unified
*-cache:2
description: L1 cache
physical id: 1a
slot: L1 Cache
size: 32KiB
capacity: 32KiB
capabilities: synchronous internal write-through instruction
*-cache
description: L1 cache
physical id: 18
slot: L1 Cache
size: 32KiB
capacity: 32KiB
capabilities: synchronous internal write-through data
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 1b
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 4GiB
*-bank:0
description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1067 MHz (0.9 ns)
product: AD73I1B1674EU
vendor: A-DATA Technology
physical id: 0
serial: F7F10100
slot: Bottom - Slot 1
size: 2GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 1067MHz (0.9ns)
*-bank:1
description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1067 MHz (0.9 ns)
product: AD73I1B1674EU
vendor: A-DATA Technology
physical id: 1
serial: 1AE90100
slot: Bottom - Slot 2
size: 2GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 1067MHz (0.9ns)
*-pci:0
description: Host bridge
product: Core Processor DRAM Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=agpgart-intel
resources: irq:0
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:42 memory:d0000000-d03fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:4050(size=8)

VINNY

[StarWolf]

well i did get a different video card bought a gefocre 210 1024 ddr3 ram I don't do gaming so i think ill go with the amd

. porbably not that big of a deal but go the 4g stick and the card for 91.00

276 at new egg so about 370 upgrade . ill be good for a couple of years.
at least.all good tho i am sure ill notice the change from the 2.8 ghz p4 1g of ram & the geforce 6800xt
with 256 mg raM. i already have a 1100w power supply and 500g sata that is about 2yrs old

[StarWolf]

so when i do make these changes kubuntu will auto detect or will i have to boot the cd

[lcorken]

About 6 months ago I built a new system (Phenom II X4, 8G Ram, AMD4250 Integrated graphics). Wanted to keep cost low so decided to use the existing 500G SATA drive that was in my old P4 machine.

I wanted to run 64 bit OS but decided to just see if it would boot the old stuff. It did just fine. Had Kubuntu 10.04 on one partition and Lubuntu 11.10 on another. All ran happily on the new hardware. Now running Kubuntu 12.04 64 bit.

Performance difference is amazing. The old P4 rig was close to 10 years old. Not a gamer so am very happy with the cheep graphics.

Happy machine, Happy me.

Ken.

[SteveRiley]

so when i do make these changes kubuntu will auto detect or will i have to boot the cd

Possibly, with major doses of maybe and perhaps.

I moved an installed Kubuntu from a ThinkPad T410 with nVidia graphics to a ThinkPad T520 with Intel graphics. It booted to a CLI prompt. I had to make some changes to graphics drivers (install some, purge others). Then it would boot to KDM and everything seemed fine.

YMMV, of course.

[jlittle]

so when i do make these changes kubuntu will auto detect or will i have to boot the cd

Possibly, with major doses of maybe and perhaps.

I replaced a mobo (after a failure), on Jaunty approximately. It booted, but I never got the sound to work, despite KFN's help.