Boring Video card rant
Unfortunately a friend of my father’s wants to build his computer from components. A little project. This was probably the best way 3 or so years ago, but now I highly recommend you do not build your own computer.
It’s not worth the time or money.
So I sat on dabs.com and ordered some bits on his behalf. I think the budget was 200UKP but we inadvertedly blew that.
Product : Internet Keyboard PS/2
Price inc VAT : £12.99
Product : Athlon XP 2600+ 512Kb SoA
Price inc VAT : £58.98
Product : Barracuda 7200.7 80GB SATA150
Price inc VAT : £46.98
Product : 512MB 184DIMM PC3200 NP CL3
Price inc VAT : £54.99
Product : Silent Boost for XP upto 3400+
Price inc VAT : £15.99
(Tried to get a silent one. Sigh… 16UKP!)
Product : 16xDVD 48xCD Int IDE OEM
Price inc VAT : £15.99
Product : SoA KT600+ ATX A R L 2DDR
Price inc VAT : £40.99
I heard bad things about the Nforce2’s NIC, so I opted for VIA. But then after we made the order I realized I have forgotten about the Video card. Well I hate bundled boards. Argh, the AC97. Poor creative.
I noticed the mb has an AGP 8x slot for the card. So logically I should find a 8x AGP card. Oh what do we have?
- Nvidia
- ATI
With binary drivers. I never had much success with ATI drivers so I think I will choose a GeForceFX 5200.
It should work judging by this Debian users post.
This box will cost 300UKP in total, at least.
It would be cool to play Doom3, but I do not think there are Linux binaries out yet. Sigh…
I used to play 3D games. And this will hopefully be the last computer I ever assemble.