Re: [LUG] Other problems while mounting Buffalo HDD

[tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/10/12 16:55, Martin Gautier wrote:

On 02/10/12 16:39, bad apple wrote:

Chief, buy yourself a low end gigabyte motherboard, a Core I3 and 8-16Gb
of DDR3 RAM and never look back. You'll thank me later.

A good start. What about graphics? Onboard Intel or separate nVidia (what model)? I think ATI is to be avoided but can be persuaded o therwise...

Martin

IMHO avoid nvidia like the plague. I have 3 nvidia machines that wont run OpenGL stuff well if at all - using nvidia's proprietary drivers and the intel machine runs fine. This could be an ubuntu/mint thing but as mint seems to use the same driver chain....
Tom te tom te tom

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