New PC build

[trick>of>light]

Feeling pretty good as I've just finished my first build.

AMD Athlon 2000XP
Abit KX7 333
Zalman Flower Heat Sink
60Gb Maxtor
512 Kingmax
Radeon 9000

CPU is running at 42c.

Is that OK?

 

[Vehementi]

That's great man, nice upgrade. CPU temp is pretty good too. Is it load or idle?

 

[trick>of>light]

Thats load

Well I'm just surfing the web

Case is open as I haven't got any case fans yet

 

[Nick]

yeah that definately is a great temperature for an amd xp cpu, personally i run at 34*c but i have some great cooling in a 50*f room

 

[trick>of>light]

I see your running Linux.

How do you find it?

I'm tempted to install redhat on my second hard drive just for the education. i've always liked the lure of open source.

I'm a graphic/web designer by trade do you think it would benefit me at all to run Linux as a second OS?

Could you tell me the benifits of Linux - I haven't a clue.

 

[Elcarion]

Originally posted by Nick
personally i run at 34*c but i have some great cooling in a 50*f room

What brand of jacket, gloves, etc. do you recommend for continued use?

 

[Vehementi]

Originally posted by trick>of>light
I see your running Linux.

How do you find it?

I'm tempted to install redhat on my second hard drive just for the education. i've always liked the lure of open source.

I'm a graphic/web designer by trade do you think it would benefit me at all to run Linux as a second OS?

Could you tell me the benifits of Linux - I haven't a clue.

Take a browse around the "The Alternative OS" section.

Linux really is great.

http://www.redhat.com

 

[poertner_1274]

Some pretty basic distro's of linux are

Redhat and Mandrake

There are more complicated ones but I suggest these for starting.

 

[Phantasm66]

Its a nice feeling to complete the build on your first machine. Its hard work the first time but it gets a lot easier after several more attempts (other than when the odd phantom problem sporadically pops up....)

Linux is good fun and I suggest giving it a go. Why not read our post here:

https://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=214

Which includes a guide by yours truly and also some good posts from others about problems that they encountered and how these were solved.