Picking the right harwared to run FC3 on.
RoboticGolem
roboticgolem at gmail.com
Mon Dec 13 01:31:49 UTC 2004
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:30:38 -0500, Mathew S. Nowend
<mathewnowend at swfla.rr.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Well here is a question or decision that I am in need of help with. I am
> going to list out the specs of 4 machines that I now have and I need
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> Help picking which machine is the best for running FC3 on. I know that the
> most powerful is always the best. But since some of the machines
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> Have new hardware I am not sure what kind of troubles I am going to run
> into. My goal is to not have to dual boot the machine but have it as a
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> FC3 box. Thanks for your help and advice.
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> Mathew S. Nowend.
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> Laptop 1.
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> PIII 800
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> 192 Ram
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> 30 gig hd
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> 12" screen
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> Dvd drive
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> Integrated NIC/sound/modem
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> 32 meg intel graphics
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> Laptop 2
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> Inspiron 8600 M
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> Pentium M 1.8 ghz
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> 2 gig ram
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> 60 gig hd
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> Dvd/cdrw combo drive
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> Broadcom integrated NIC/modem
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> Ac'97 sound
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> NVIDIA ge force go 5200 64 meg video card
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> 15.4" WUXGA screen
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> Laptop 3
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> XPS
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> Pentium 4 3.4ht
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> 60 gig hard drive
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> Dvd/dvdr-w
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> 128 meg ATI radeon 9700
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> 15.4" WUXGA screen
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> Integrated broadcom NIC/modem
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> Integrated AC'97 sound
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> 2 gig RAM
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> Wireless G Notebook adapter
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> Box 4
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> Pentium 4 3.0ht
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> 1 gig ram
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> 17" Flat panel
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> 128 mb PCI ATI Radeon x300
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> 160 gb SATA drive
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> Intel pro 100mb NIC
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> 16x dvd
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> 16x dvd +/- rw
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> Sound blaster live 24 bit audio card
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> Wireless-G PCI apadter
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> I am debating if I want to keep a windows box handy just to have. Any
> suggestions here would be much appreciated.
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> Is it also worth turning one machine into acting just as a firewall? Or a
> firewall/web server? (Still getting prices on static ip's)
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> Thanks for all your help again,
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> Mathew S. Nowend
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Here's my 2 cents:
My friend has that Inspiron 8600 (M?) and fc3 runs great on it. He's
had no problems that I know of. Outside of that, I have no idea.
-Matt
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