Am Mittwoch 22 August 2007 02:53:54 schrieb Philip Webb: > 070821 James wrote: > > Philip Webb <purslow <at> sympatico.ca> writes: > >> (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as > >> "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 > >> integrated High-definition video processing > >> with maximum resolution 2048 x 1536 bpp <at> 75 Hz ; > >> maximum shared memory 256 MB ; supports OpenGL 1.5, Pixel Shader 2.0 > >> ". It appears that with this mobo I don't need a separate graphics card > >> unless I want very high-performance gaming or similar; > >> also, it uses open-source drivers (can anyone confirm?). > > > > I'm not certain about your video assumptions. > > I've just installed Gentoo on a sony viao (see recent threads) > > and never got the Intel 810 driver working. After extensive googling, > > the version of the chips does not work with the 810 Intel drivers. > > Lots of people blame Sony, but I'm sure Intel provided a chip > > that is unusuable with the 810 driver: I believe it's a 965GM . > > Thanks a lot for the comment: I was wondering whether no-one was interested > or whether my planned set-up was so good no-one bothered to say so (smile). > > I did look at the beginning of a thread this week re CPU/cooling/audio, > but it didn't seem relevant to my very ordinary desktop needs: > the machine wb overkill, but needs to last 4 years like the present one.
What's about the cooler? The ones Intel provides aren't great. They are loud and not very effective. That's not really what you want for desktop use (except you are allways hearing loud music ;-)
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