JoeyJoJoe
2007-07-10, 04:11 PM CDT
I'm looking at getting a new PC from dell.co.uk in the next couple of days and wondered if anyone knew of any known issues with any of this hardware...
Processor
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Intel® Viiv™ Core™ 2 Duo E4300 Processor (1.8GHz,800MHz,2MB cache)
Memory
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2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]
Monitors/Displays
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Dell™ 19" Silver Wide Flat Panel (SE198WFP) - UK/Irish
Hard Drives
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250GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst™ cache
Optical
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16x DVD +/- RW Drive
Optical
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16x DVD +/- RW Drive
Video Cards
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Integrated Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator 3100
Thats all the info I can get on it until after I've bought it. If you know of any of dell's generic parts which has issues I'd really like to know. Also, does anyone know if fedora can support dual core processors? or support fully? (is it the SMP kernel...?)
I do know of the dangers (or what Theo de Raat calls dangers) of the Core 2 Duo, but linus thinks its not really a problem, and if it is a problem it'll be real brown trousers time - so an update to the firmware should follow quickly (or it'll be truly unfixable and we'll all be for it)
Thanks,
Joe
Processor
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Intel® Viiv™ Core™ 2 Duo E4300 Processor (1.8GHz,800MHz,2MB cache)
Memory
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2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]
Monitors/Displays
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Dell™ 19" Silver Wide Flat Panel (SE198WFP) - UK/Irish
Hard Drives
Learn More
250GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst™ cache
Optical
Learn More
16x DVD +/- RW Drive
Optical
Learn More
16x DVD +/- RW Drive
Video Cards
Learn More
Integrated Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator 3100
Thats all the info I can get on it until after I've bought it. If you know of any of dell's generic parts which has issues I'd really like to know. Also, does anyone know if fedora can support dual core processors? or support fully? (is it the SMP kernel...?)
I do know of the dangers (or what Theo de Raat calls dangers) of the Core 2 Duo, but linus thinks its not really a problem, and if it is a problem it'll be real brown trousers time - so an update to the firmware should follow quickly (or it'll be truly unfixable and we'll all be for it)
Thanks,
Joe