Help for builind a new PC

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Hello all

I have a plan to build a new PC with below specs;

AMD A4 3400 APU @ 2700MHz dual core / Radeon HD 6410D @ 600MHz
4GiB dual channel 1866MHz
500GiB Serial ATA 2 32MiB buffer
Mobo with A75 chipset

Is this system powerful enough to run openSUSE with KDE 4.9+ smoothly? or I must go for the better APU? :\

Thanks in advance for any help.

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I’d say it is, except for demanding openGL games. Also note your HD speed - some of these “green” models are not 7200 PRM, but the slower 5400 or even 4400 RPM, OK for storage but not for system or /home.

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On 08/29/2012 02:56 AM, Deathmachine wrote:
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> Hello all
>
> I have a plan to build a new PC with below specs;
>
> AMD A4 3400 APU @ 2700MHz dual core / Radeon HD 6410D @ 600MHz
> 4GiB dual channel 1866MHz
> 500GiB Serial ATA 2 32MiB buffer
> Mobo with A75 chipset
>
> Is this system powerful enough to run openSUSE with KDE 4.9+ smoothly?
> or I must go for the better APU? :
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>
I prefer Intel to AMD and Nvidia to Radeon in Linux (a personal
evaluation acquired over a long time of watching questions in these
forums). But I bet you’ll find others with different views.

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Regards
swerdna

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On 28/08/12 21:43, swerdna wrote:
> But I bet you’ll find others with different views.
I agree though.

Having said that - my main box is AMD CPU

Main thing you need to focus on is Hardware compatibility with Linux
It’s not always easy to establish clearly exactly what you are buying

As a rule of thumb,: If it’s not the latest and greatest, you will
likely be OK

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I’d say it is, except for demanding openGL games. Also note your HD speed - some of these “green” models are not 7200 PRM, but the slower 5400 or even 4400 RPM, OK for storage but not for system or /home.
The primary usage for this PC is surfing internet, import photos from digital camera and playing video/audio files. The HDD is Seagate 7200 RPM.
I prefer Intel to AMD and Nvidia to Radeon in Linux (a personal evaluation acquired over a long time of watching questions in these forums). But I bet you’ll find others with different views.
Yes Intel have better performance and instruction support (SSSE3, SSE4.1/4.2, etc.) and also nVidia supports Linux better. But I want to build a low budget PC, and as you know the relation between price and performance in AMD microprocessors is great.
Main thing you need to focus on is Hardware compatibility with Linux
Correct. I found a data sheet for Linux ACPI support in various mainboard manufactures https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0ArD2Y0QXFND2dGxhQnNjZ2RNLVF4SGtPUnlCajVyOWc&output=htmlBy the way thanks for your reply guys.

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I clicked the wrong button and my answer… :slight_smile: I try again.

I’m running AMD A-3850(6530D graphics), F1 A75V Pro Mobo, Western Digital Caviar Green WD8000AARS 800GB 5400 RPM 64MB, 4GB of 1366Ghz RAM. 2xflat monitors connected. Opensuse 12.2RC2 and KDE 4.8.4.

I can play two different standard video streams from my Dreamboxes(Satellite receivers) on my monitors without any flickering. Even full HD (1920x1080) on one monitor and standard resolution video stream on the other with some filter applied and osd(subtitle) activated.

I use this as an everyday PC, i don’t feel any lack of speed. The only thing will be to switch HD to SSD. I will put the disk in one of my servers instead(I have Gigabyte cable network in all the rooms and workshop). I haven’t tried any games yet.

I prefer AMD graphics over Intel.

The only problem i had was when i tried to install WinXp for dual boot but received one bluescreen after another and gave that up :wink:

Well not the configure you where asking about but it maybe give some input and ideas. God luck!