I want to switch to AMD 64bit when Fedora Core 4 is released. I notice Asus has some new motherboards supporting "PCI Express" on both Nvidia Nforce and VIA K8T890 chipsets. And, something called "SLI" on the Nvidia Nforce chipset. (Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe, A8N-SLI, and A8V-E Deluxe)
Does anyone know how Fedora Core 4 (or earlier) supports these newer motherboards and graphic cards? Will I be ok buying into new technology like this? Or, am I safer with the older VIA K8T800Pro which supports AGP (Asus A8V Deluxe)?
I searched the archives for some of these terms and couldn't find anything.
Thanks, Mark
I believe you'll be just fine. I've several users here at work using PCI-Express graphics cards with no problems.
Additionally, the SLI moniker denotes the fact that there are two PCI-Express video slots on the motherboard, allowing you to use two SLI (scan-line interleave) capable nVidia videocards in parallel, roughly doubling your potential video performance.
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