Re: Wanted - Recommendation of good motherboard for AMD Athlon 64 X2

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

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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