On Saturday 13 March 2004 09:28 pm, fred smith wrote: > Gang: > > I'm about to buy a bunch of parts to build a new machine, and am looking > for suggestions/referrals on the motherboard to use. > > I'm interested in an Athlon XP 2600+ (because that seems to be the sweet > spot, pricewise) and there are a ton of motherboards that can support > that processor. > > One MB that has caught my eye is the Gigabyte GA-7VT600-L, a Via KT600 > chipset board. It also has integrated audio and LAN, using Realtec ALC-655 > audio chipset and Realtec 8101L 10/100 LAN chipset. I'd appreciate it if > any of you know of how well this board and these chipsets are supported > in a modern Linux if you'd let me know. This Gigabyte board can be > purchased today for US$63 from newegg (not a plug, just a fact). > > Alternatively, I'd also appreciate suggestions for similarly priced boards > that are known to work well (I'd like to not go much over about $80). (I'm > leaning away from an Nvidia chipset board merely because I don't want to > depend on nvidia for closed-source drivers for the board, though I could > perhaps be convinced otherwise!) One small caveat is I need two serial > ports, and some new boards come with only one (I'm using both a serial > modem and serial UPS). > > I'm not certain which LInux I'm ultimately going to end up using either, > but probably one of Fedora FC1/FC2, or maybe one of the RHEL 3 derivatives, > Whitebox or Tao. > > Feedback will be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance! One thing to also consider if this motherboard is on the AMD motherboard approved list. If its on this list, it will be solid. The list can be found here: http://www2.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/1,,30_182_869_4348%5e7923,00.html?1060764711 Byte
