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".
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'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.
What out there actually works.
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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".
>
> 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'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.
>
> What out there actually works.
>
oh - and - I forgot to mention this NO NVidia chips. That's what I'm
trying to get away from because of lack of Linux support.
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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.
>
>
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