[Ilugc] Desktop PC for college
- From: roshan@xxxxxxxxx (Roshan George)
- Date: Sun Jul 11 12:08:29 2010
On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 07:10 +0530, vikram . wrote:
Hi,
I am joining aerospace engineering in IIT Madras this year. I plan to buy a
desktop PC for college use.
I was wondering what specifications to look for eg. whether to go for a 32
bit or 64 bit machine, what video card to get, etc.
Thank you.
Hi, Vikram,
These questions will be better answered on forums like TechEnclave.com
<
http://www.techenclave.com/pc-buying-advice/> and Erodov.com
<
http://www.erodov.com/forums/hardware-zone/core-components/>. Pretty
much the only thing you'll have to worry about for Linux compatibility
are graphics cards (since you won't be needing wi-fi).
For graphics cards: Nvidia has always been the way to go if you want
best performance since their closed-source drivers work most of the
time.
I have an ATI 4670 and an Nvidia 8800 GT though, and the 4670 has out of
the box 3D acceleration in the latest version of Ubuntu (and probably
also other modern distros) with free drivers so radeonhd has come quite
a way. Both of these work fine, though. Other people also report that a
low-end ATI 4350 works with free drivers:
<
http://vizzzion.org/blog/2010/06/epic-moment-free-and-fast-graphics-at-last/>.
Good luck,
--
Roshan George
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