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Re: [LUG] No OS PC from Ebuyer

 

On 14/03/13 18:49, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Julian Hall wrote:

 FYI anyone needing/wanting a new PC..

Decent spec and price :)

http://www.ebuyer.com/407538-zoostorm-desktop-pc-7873-1076

Double-check the processor+gpu - especially if you're planning on using
Linux with it.

I have a similar motherboard: Cpuinfo say:

model name      : AMD A6-3500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics

and it isn't yet supported by the opensource (nor closed source when I
last checked) drivers. Works fine as a dumb framebuffer, but that's it.

Gordon


It does work with the official AMD drivers (we have these machines at work) but it's a bit of a faff to get it working at the moment. We generally run Windows 7 on them.

Not bad machines all in all. Noisy PSU though with a slightly loose fitting power socket on the PSU. I'd suggest if you bought one, buy a decent PSU and bung the original or sell it cheap.

Rob

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