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whig · 01-04-04, 01:30 AM

1) According to some benchmarks the 3000+ performs just like the 3200+ when playing games, so I would have bought it if I had the option. As for comparisons to the P4s I suggest you look at a few benchmark sites.

2) I bought a nVidia card because they have drivers for AMD64 now. They don't work as good as I would like tho. ATI are still to offer 64 bit. But motherboards: I have a Gigabyte K8V - works OK. For a bit more info see

http://www.tweaktown.com/document.ph...98&71923&80881

3) I have no experience with small form factor PCs.

4) You don't need a seperate drive to dual boot Windows / Linux. Windows must boot from a primary partition on the first disk (hda1-4), Linux can be anywhere. To load Linux I use lilo but to boot the system I use the Smart Boot Manager (it's open source.) Neither is hard to learn.

There are advantages to having two disks: if Windows is already installed you don't have to shrink its size. And backups: by coping important Windows data to the other disk (&vv) you still have it should one disk fail.

01-04-04, 01:30 AM	#2
whig 550Ti Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: New Zealand Posts: 854	1) According to some benchmarks the 3000+ performs just like the 3200+ when playing games, so I would have bought it if I had the option. As for comparisons to the P4s I suggest you look at a few benchmark sites. 2) I bought a nVidia card because they have drivers for AMD64 now. They don't work as good as I would like tho. ATI are still to offer 64 bit. But motherboards: I have a Gigabyte K8V - works OK. For a bit more info see http://www.tweaktown.com/document.ph...98&71923&80881 3) I have no experience with small form factor PCs. 4) You don't need a seperate drive to dual boot Windows / Linux. Windows must boot from a primary partition on the first disk (hda1-4), Linux can be anywhere. To load Linux I use lilo but to boot the system I use the Smart Boot Manager (it's open source.) Neither is hard to learn. There are advantages to having two disks: if Windows is already installed you don't have to shrink its size. And backups: by coping important Windows data to the other disk (&vv) you still have it should one disk fail.