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From: Hans-Christian Armingeon <linux.johnny@gmx.net>
To: joe.mathewson@btinternet.com, Joseph Mathewson <joe@mathewson.co.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [OT] Suitable Athlon Motherboard for Linux
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 21:35:01 +0200
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On Wednesday,  4. July 2001 20:49, Joseph Mathewson wrote:
> Having heard the various horror stories about the VIA PCI data corruption
> bugs, and watching one Via based machine destroy itself with a Mandrake 8.0
>  2.4.3, I was just wondering if anyone had a suggestion for an Athlon
> motherboard that works reliably under Linux (I don't think all the issues
> have been cleared up in the kernel yet?).  There must be quite a few Linux
> Athlon users out there - what boards are you using and with what success?
>
> I can't see much alternative to Via chipsets in the Ahtlon market, other
> than all-in-one-graphics-sound-network jobbies that, from previous
> experience (namely the i810), are also best avoided.
>
> Joe.
>
I think the SIS chipset based mainboards will be at a very good performance, 
even faster than VIA. I read it in the german c't magazine.

Johnny
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