Building new system - recommendations?

[pwaugh]

Over the next week, I'll be identifying the components to put together a new system.

I plan on building it around the most powerful Intel chip & lastest mother board that Ubuntu will support.

I'm considering this processor:

Intel BX80574QX9775 Core 2 Extreme QX9775 Yorkfield XE 3.20 GHz CPU

Anyone have any recommendations? How can I check if Ubuntu supports different hardware? Where is the diffinative list?

Does Ubuntu support dual core? How about hyper-threading?

Is DDR3 currently the best/fastest RAM?

Patrick

[teaker1s]

yes duel core is supported,best bet is to look at the two sticky posts in this forum
Search the forums and also use google to check compatibility.

eg I search
hda intel linux
hda intel debian
hda intel ubuntu

also worth looking at the ubuntu community docs
and ubuntu wiki