Re: PC components

Sam Varghese wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:19:04PM +1100 Tony Langdon said:
> 
>>At 04:42 PM 12/18/2005, you wrote:
>>
>>>64-bit doesn't get much in extra speed for most apps. It is good for large
>>>data problems such as video or databases, or it can be as simple as making
>>>tar files a few gigabytes in size for backing up lots of data (2GB is the
>>>limit for 32-bit systems iirc).
>>
>>Actually, many filesystems support > 2GB file sizes under 32 bit 
>>Linux.  It is documented on the Net, and I have done it myself on 2.4 
>>and 2.6 kernel based systems on 32 bit PC hardware
> 
> Thanks for the input all of you. I'll probably pick up the bits and
> pieces mid-week and have it set up by the weekend. A final question -
> between ABIT and ASUS what would you pick?

Check for things like highest front-side bus speed and highest agp slot
speed. Don't know if there's much difference between the brands.
Apart from the usual peripherals, some motherboards have more pci slots
and usb sockets than others.