I buy a new computer every 5 years or so. My current machine is an Athlon800 and it continues to perform well because I was careful about my purchasing back in 2000 and I'd like to repeat that this time around.
To that end, I'm looking for suggestions from the lot of you with regard to what kind of hardware I can/should get for my new shiny desktop machine. requirements are: Linux friendly and stable (duh) Slick graphics for WindowsXP games (doom3 is my benchmark right now) TV-in No monitor/dvd/cd/sound since i have that already < $2000CDN What i do with it most: Compile stuff (i heart Gentoo) Rip/encode DVD/CDs Write code & surf (KDE) Play games I don't like to have to upgrade outside of adding another stick of ram, so the CPU that comes with it is likely to be the CPU that stays with it forever. same goes for the video card. I'd like OpenGL to work, so when Xorg stabilises their transparency code, I'd like to be able to use that without having to worry about support for my card. Your suggestions or opinions are very welcome. Please and thank you. -- love makes you do the wacky - willow, buffy the vampire slayer, "some assembly required" -- [email protected] mailing list
