Here's some info about my box. I got it used, about nine months ago, for $160. It is a Dell Dimension 3000, 2.8 MHz Pentium IV, with 1.25 GB RAM, and a PNY Verto NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI video card. It has a 40 GB Western Digital and a 13 GB Maxtor, and a DVD-ROM and a DVD+RW optical drive. The mobo doesn't have a AGP or a PCIexpress. For the little I paid, I've already gotten my money's worth. I dual boot Windows XP and Mandriva (2008.1 as of today!). I've booted Puppy 4.0 Dingo, and had everything work, as well as some other live distros, like DSL, Mandriva One, et cetera.
I installed the NVIDIA drivers using the install script from their web site. I had to install binutils, gcc, linux -devel and something else to get the installer to complete okay. I've had pretty good luck with NVIDIA video cards and linux, and will probably stick with them.
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