arctic Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 hi again. :) i want to buy some new computers for my office (it will be four systems) as my boxes need replacement now (two old duron computers (750 and 850 mhz) and two athlons with 1,2 ghz). i have two cheap offers available. before i settle on one offer, i'd like to ask you, which system might be the better choice/will work better with mandriva or ubuntu or fedora or ... the machines will be needed for writing, a bit of graphic design, photo-manipulation and of course webbrwosing and mailing. they will share files on local network. they will not be used for any gaming. The machines will be upgraded to 512 mb ram later. so if you know some pros and cons, please tell me about your experiences with certain hardware or what you thing in general about those sytems. here is offer one: Intel Celeron D330 2,66GHz 256MB 80GB DVD-ROM ATX Midi Tower black 300W with Front-USB Mainboard Asrock P4i45GV Rev.5.0 Networkcard 10/100 MHz Ethernet onboard CPU Intel Celeron D-330 2,66GHz Socket FSB533MHz CPU Cooler Sockel A Artic-Cooling SuperSilent 4Ultra RAM 256MB DDR-333 Infineon 3rd PC-2700 Graphics Integrated Intel Extreme Graphics Max. 64MB Shared-Memory Frontreader USB2.0 6xReader 3½" black Floppy 1,44 MB silver Harddisk, Maxtor,Seagate,Samsung etc.( 80 GB / 7200 U/min ) DVD-ROM 48x/16x black Soundcard AC97 CODEC 5.1 Channel Audio onboard Keyboard, Mouse (with Scrollwheel) and 24 months service included cost: 299 ,- € and offer two: AMD Sempron 2500+ 256MB, 80 GB HDD, DVD 16x/48x Midi-Tower Micro-ATX Mainboard: Biostar M7NCG400, SocketA,mATX Processor: AMD Sempron 2500+ On-Board LAN: 10/100MBit Realtek 8201BL HDD: ExcelStor ESJ880c 80GB, 7200 Graphics: NVIDIA nForce2 ULTRA 400 IGP Shared (up to 128MB) RAM: 256 MB DDR DIMM,PC2700/333 MHz Optical drives: LG GDR-8163B 16x/48x Sound onboard: 6-channel Realtek ALC655 USB 2.0: 2xUSB 2.0 + 4 optional Keyboard, Mouse not included, service not included cost: 299,- € any tips / opinions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 I'd rather go for 2, the main reason being that Celerons are poopoo. No.2 also has a better onboard videocard, altough it "might" be stressed a bit with 256M total RAM. Service not included is a minus, but IMO not a stopper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Hello Arctic. Yes you do arctic-ulate well :D :D I don´t hear good things about microATX boards. Because the boards are physically much smaller than the usual ATX a lot of stuff is left off and too many compromises are made in terms of spec and most importantly quality. After all they are made to be cheap. Also I would go with the AMD. Forget about the higher frequency of the Intel. It is now acknowledged that this aspect is not a very important. With the AMD you get considerably more bang for your buck. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 I would not buy a celeron chip. The AMD Sempron is great. Get AMD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hovel Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 The AMD (athlon) used to be more performant than the INTEL (Celeron). However today the INTEL "Celeron-D" outperforms the AMD "Sempron". ref: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/print/sempron.html So i would go for offer one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 okay, thank you for your answers. i was also tempted to get the AMD machines. so be it. they will be ordered in some minutes. but i just decided to push them to 1 gb ram each. it costs me only 50 bucks more per machine, (a special offer of the vendor and imho a real bargain) which is fine with me. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Congratulations! That $50 for the 1 gb RAM is indeed a bargain! I've got an Athlon 2500+ with 1 gb RAM myself (DFI KT600-AL mb). You're gonna love 'em! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 I/we (the company I work for) has fielded over 500 MSI computers (Hetis 915) into a nationaly known retailer. http://www.msicomputer.com/ One each per store. Those all went out early in 2004. The OS is Mandrake 9.2. I have two of these at home and have one running as a webserver. OS is Mandriva LE 2005. The other runs XP but boots and runs MOVE (Live CD) flawlessly. They are all Celeron 1.7 or 1.8. All 500+ of these things have run nearly flawlessly. Mandriva loads and understands everything. Ya can't ask for better then that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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