[geeks] linux box upgrade

[Andrew Jones]

On 03/27/2012 09:40 AM, Bertrand Hutin wrote:
> I plan to upgrade my very old linux (Debian) box soon
> I alreadyu have 1 ssd
> for the os and a sata disk for data
>
> I guess 4GB of memory will do
> i also need
> at least 2 PCI slots to reuse old cards (scsi and 2 network)
> usage is mostly
> personal office and web browsing, beeing able to watch videos would be nice
> what would you recommend as Motherboard, CPU and video card?
> I have a
> preference for AMD, but is open to Intel.
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AMD has cheaper ECC memory options, because it's supported on a lot of 
Asus consumer boards with consumer chips.

Intel is massively faster per dollar.

nVidia is still the only consistently good option for Linux graphics. 
Almost all nVidia chips do x264 offload now, so watching videos etc 
isn't an issue, no matter how slow your PC is.