Building a new computer

[Rick Stevens]

Bruce McDonald wrote:
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>>3.  Talk to some LUG people about what they have seen and done.  Maybe
>>you will luck out and someone in your LUG will have or be able to demo
>>a machine for not too much.  I haven't spec'd out this machine, but it
>>really helps to see what people have done already.
> 
> 
> Good idea.  
> I thought Rick or others on this list had already started playing with the
> 64 bit processor systems.  Though I couldn't find the mails.

I do have an AMD64.  I can't recall which motherboard I used, however.
I think it's the ASUS K8T-VE, but I won't swear to it.  Let me look when
I get home to verify it.  I'm also using an ATI Radeon 9600SE video card
The FC2 driver for the on-board 10/100 Marvell card's driver was broken
(flooded the syslogs with a meaningless message), so I went with an
Intel  PCI gigabit card.  I understand the newer Marvell driver works
better but I haven't tried it.

I put 1GB of RAM on it and installed FC2 (64-bit) on it.  All in all,
I've very happy (the bloody thing compiles code like a rocket!)

Be warned:  There are a number of Mozilla plugins that won't install on
the 64-bit platform (Macromedia FLASH, for example).  They will work
fine if you fool the installer by poking stuff into /proc so it looks
like an Athlon or i686.  A google search will reveal the method to use.
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