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    [SOLVED] upgrading pc

    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 .

    #2
    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.

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      #3
      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
      i7 4core HT 8MB L3 2.9GHz
      16GB RAM
      Nvidia GTX 860M 4GB RAM 1152 cuda cores

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        #4
        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
        Last edited by StarWolf; Jun 24, 2012, 05:02 PM.

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          #5
          so when i do make these changes kubuntu will auto detect or will i have to boot the cd

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            #6
            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.
            Opinions are like rear-ends, everybody has one. Here's mine. (|)

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              #7
              Originally posted by StarWolf View Post
              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.

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                #8
                Originally posted by StarWolf View Post
                so when i do make these changes kubuntu will auto detect or will i have to boot the cd
                Originally posted by SteveRiley View Post
                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.
                Regards, John Little

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