Re: [LUG] New computer: RAM, CPU

[Max Siegieda <maxsiegieda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's been said before, and it will be said again, depends on what you want to do however I recommend the Intel E5200, and just about any new RAM will do. At stock speeds it's a powerful CPU and it runs cool, if you want a bit of extra performance, it will easily and safely overclock to 3.5GHz, at which speed it will beat CPUs much more expensive than itself.

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Martijn Grooten <sweetwatergeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello.

It's that time where I'm going to buy a new computer and I realised I
have little idea about how much memory and how fast a processor is
needed these days. I've bought some servers for work recently and
compared to shose all desktops seem very slow and rather low on
memory, but then, this home computer is going to run neither a mail
server nor a web server. Just a dual boot Kubuntu and Vista, that will
mainly be used for web browsing, office stuff and some photo editing.
But it'd be nice if it were good enough to survive the next version of
either operating system too.

Thanks.

Martijn.

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