I'm shopping for a new developer machine for which I'll be using Fedora
as the development platform. Its been about about 7-8 years since I
built a machine from scratch but since then I've accumulated a lot of
parts that ultimately could contribute to a nice box if I had the right
motherboard.
I'm partial to AMD chips. I'm not a gamer but I do like nice visuals
and decent sound. I've got a good video and sound card now but they are
both 7-8 years old. I suspect things have changed a lot and almost
wonder if newer motherboards don't offer better on board now. I plan on
taking advantage of virtualization so I imagine memory and processing
speed would be indicated. Over the long run I always seem to run out of
PCI slots or USB ports so that would be a premium. Economy is also a
bonus. I don't mind paying for performance and extensibility but if I
could get something pretty decent at a low cost maybe I could buy a
couple and replace another older board I have running. I also like
BIOS's that are tweak friendly.
Right now the fastest machine in my fleet is an Intel Pentium M 1.4 GHz
running on a dell laptop. My desktop (development) is running an old
AMD Thunderbird which I don't even think breaks 1GHz and has only .5Gb
of onboard memory.
Sorry for off topic, just thought this might be the best place to get an
idea of what everybody else is using since we all share interest in the
same development platform. Flame me directly, spare the list :)
Thanks - Tod
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