Arch Linux

Xherziu

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Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 58

New box for ArchLinu

Building a new box which I wanna try running ArchLinux, would this combo run okay?

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Mobo: ASUS M2A-VM AM2

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6813131172

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6819103194
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I'm shocked on how much prices dropped in a year. 

Anybody predict any problems with this setup?

The Orange Peanut

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Registered: 2008-01-06

Posts: 152

Re: New box for ArchLinu

Looks good, just be careful if you intend to use the integrated video.  Ati drivers are horrible, so you might have to jump through some hoops to get things working correctly.

wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Re: New box for ArchLinu

Actually I bought an ATI card, because the drivers (open source, I avoid binary blobs) are pretty good and only expected to become better. My old notebook used a mobility radeon x700 and it worked very well using the "radeon" driver and now I used an HD 3870 with the in-development radeonhd driver and there were no problems.

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: New box for ArchLinu

You might wanna consider going with 780G instead. It shouldn't be much more expensive, yet with a really decent integrated graphics and generally a step up.

Xherziu

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Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 58

Re: New box for ArchLinu

Thanks for the help everyone.  I guess if I can't get integrated graphics to work then I'll buy an average graphic card.

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: New box for ArchLinu

The top combo deal looks like it may be good. AMD stock fans are noisy.