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what's your opinion on these parts. working on a small budget. any help would be great thanks

The OS will be ubuntu 10.10

SAMSUNG CD/DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S223C - OEM
Antec Lanboy air Red Black / Red Computer Modular Case
Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO AM3 AMD 785G HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
CORSAIR CMPSU-550VX 550W ATX12V V2.2 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power
CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Dual Channel Kit
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processo

Few recommendations on changes.

Seen a few hundred complainants about that board and the 965 and 970 BE chips.

Recommend the asrock 880g or 890g.

Corsair ram is hit and miss on compatibility.

If you get the asrock or stay with your asus. OCZ reapers or Gskill would be a wise choice in terms of compatibility.

PSU is sound, might want to add just a bit higher end one for growing room, just a thought. But it is nice to have room to grow with out buying a new PSU.

Also, just a thought but the hexa core can be had for not much more and packs a hella punch for the price.

My turbo core is fully working in 10.10 for what it is worth. Recommend you install the 2.6.35.23 kernel in updates. Looked to help add 2% better coding times with use of turbo core.

owned 2 of these boards before I moved to the 890FX asrock EX 3 boards.

Both of the boards performed like winners.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157191

Very solid and very stable. Better bang for the buck then the asus you listed.

P.s. asrock is made by asus lol

How about this RAM with that asrock 880G board

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820227559

MrSinister wrote:How about this RAM with that asrock 880G board

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820227559

That's the stuff I use to this day. Only mine is the 7 7 7 24 1600 1.65v.

Just the same, you can run 1600 out of the box with that asrock board with the ocz reapers.

Just make sure what ever CPU you pick has the newer 3 stepping with the newer memory controller to run that DDR3 1600 stable.

SAMSUNG CD/DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S223C - OEM
Antec Lanboy air Red Black / Red Computer Modular Case
Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 AM3 AMD 890FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
CORSAIR CMPSU-550VX 550W ATX12V V2.2 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power ...
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDT90ZFBGRBOX

Just Missing a video card now. little more then i want to pay for now. just getting some ideas.

ATI or Nvidia. which one would be better in the long rub with linux?

uber choices.

Would go ATI 5k or 6k series.

SAPPHIRE 100283L Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814102858

Should work out of the box, just install the FGLRX drivers via additional drivers tool and your set.