My good old MSI K7T Motherboard became more and more unstable over the last two weeks, and by monday my computer was pretty much unusable. It had served me well for over five years. While I initally did not want to spend much money, I decided it was time for a decent upgrade after five years.
So my new sytstem consists of a Gigabyte uATX mainboard with G965 chipset, Core 2 Duo @ 1800MHz and 2x512MB DDR2-800 RAM. The K7T had an Athlon C1000 and 512MB RAM on it, so this is quite a step up :-)
I ordered the parts from Alternate. I placed the order at about 18:45h yesterday and went for their express shipment option. Today at about 13:00 the Packet arrived. The shipping was only 20€ total. Well worth it if you are sitting at home without a working computer, counting the minutes ;-)
Although I should mention that I still had an old P133 with Debian/woody installed, which made a brief return from retirement to help during the installation process.
I went for an Intel G965 based motherboard, because I heard that there was good Linux support (ie open source drivers, unlike ATI and NVidia products). Unfortunately it still seems to be a little rough around the edges. It takes a kernel >= 2.6.18 for the IDE controller to work, and a kernel >= 2.6.19 for the graphics to work. Also I had to use the xorg driver from git (> 1.7.2) to get Xvideo support to work. Not much luck yet in the 3D department: glxgears crashes the X server after I maximize the window.
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