256MB is less in the present linux distro age. I would recommend you the latest and very fast but a lightweight Linux distro which would meet all the above requirements:
Puppy Linux Community - Home
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Good luck!
Nothing could close to Puppy Linux for its small footprint, ease and other benefits when we talk about USB sticks. Read more here:
Puppy on USB pen drive
Always remember to post your MOBO and LCD make just for clarity sake, looks like a bug in the Ubuntu distro to me:
Ubuntu Jaunty Installation Guide - cchtml.com
I don't use Ubuntu due to its GNOME, more with Kubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE etc. So, I recommend you to try those distros...
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Where could we get the best buy prices in Hyderabad? CTC or any other place? And, which is the best price city to buy Hardware: Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai Mumbai or Delhi? Any lead is appreciated.
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Did you buy that MOBO in India? If yes, what's the price?
Don't do ANY OC, use Turbo mode. Now, with patience, carefully go through this thread:
P55-UD6 socket burn - XtremeSystems Forums
I strongly recommend to go for Gigabyte P-55A series.
Re: P55 already showing signs of ageing
I am not going by that number but that's very common in the West, nothing special to do. Due to variety of reasons like price (meaningless Apples & Oranges type comparison) many Indians can't afford/think about such PCs.
Totally wrong, most of the solid...
Thanks for the response.
Actually, my nephew who works in Bangalore has requested me to help him with the configuration (he wanna dump existing 915GAV based PC). I have some recent experience in building two workstations in the US based on i5 and i7 processors so I strongly recommended my him...
LOL, whose benchmarks are really crap? Do you want me to follow any Indian benchmarks please let me know :)
Disabled HT on i7? Both i7 870 and 860 are HT enabled whereas i5-750 is not!
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Hello,
I am inquisitive to know the prices for these:
1a) Intel core i5-750 Processor
1b) Intel core i7-860 Processor
Which processor is selling high and what is the customer feed back on these processors?
2a) Gigabyte P55A-UD4P ATX Motherboard
2b) Asus P7P55D Deluxe Motherboard
Which...
What happens with a Foxconn socket if one is NOT a over clocker? Intel Turbo Boost officially supports 3.2 GHz for i5-750, 90% folks don't need to do OC at all. Folks can happily go ahead buy this wonderful processor, but DON'T buy any Intel ATX motherboards (get Asus P7P55D Deluxe or Gigabyte...
How many distros did you try? There isn't (almost) anything which Linux doesn't support in these days! Download these drivers directly from the ATI website:
ATI Proprietary Linux x86_64 Display Driver 8.28.8 For Intel® EM64T and AMD64 Platform Architecture
First read this...