lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2005]   [Sep]   [18]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
    /
    Date
    From
    SubjectRe: Wanted - Recommendation of good motherboard for AMD Athlon 64 X2
    On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Marc Perkel wrote:

    > I'm leaning towards scrappung my Ass motherboard for having a LOT of Linux
    > problems. Looking for a recommendation of what to replace it with.
    >
    > I want something that is highly Linux frendly and "just works".

    The via k8t800 based boards has "just worked" from day 1 for me going back
    to my socket 754 athlon 64 3000+ which is now fairly old.

    As a brdige chipset it's starting to show it's age since it's agp rather
    than pci-x.

    > Running Athlon 64 X2 4400+
    > Needs 4 SATA ports - prefer SATA II
    > VGA on MB would be nice but not required.
    > MUST run with 4 gigs of ram. I have Kingston HyperX which should be plenty
    > fast.

    I sort of afraid of running machines with 4GB or more of ram without ecc
    memory, but that could be a personal fetish... at this level that argues
    in favor of a socket 940 rather than 939.



    > I'm running Fedora Core 4 on it.
    > I'm Running Maxtor drives that support NCQ even though the SATA interface is
    > 1.5gb
    >
    > I don't need raid.

    most of the amd64 systems I build are for servers and most of those have
    tyan mainboards at this point.

    I'm sort of fascinated with the asrock/uli chipset mainboards that's
    floating around but I have actually splurged yet, and I haven't had a uli
    chipset mainboard since my cyrix 5x86mx 100 died a couple years ago.

    http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20050916/index.html

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157081

    > What out there actually works.
    >
    >

    --
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu
    GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2

    -
    To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
    the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
    More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
    Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

    \
     
     \ /
      Last update: 2005-09-18 19:15    [W:4.428 / U:0.936 seconds]
    ©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site