[lm-sensors] Any suggestion on buying a new computer with Pentium 4

[lm-sensors] Any suggestion on buying a new computer with Pentium 4

[Yongkui Han]

Hi, all,

I will buy a new computer with Pentium 4 CPU. I will install Linux operating
system, and I wanna run lm_sensor package on this new computer to read
temperature sensor values.

What computer should I buy? I know Dell computer is not well supported from
lm_sensor. Can I buy some models of HP computers? Can I buy the computer
from BestBuy or CircuitCity?

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Yongkui
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[lm-sensors] Any suggestion on buying a new computer with

[Rudolf Marek]

Hi Han,

> I will buy a new computer with Pentium 4 CPU. I will install Linux 
> operating system, and I wanna run lm_sensor package on this new computer 
> to read temperature sensor values.
>  
> What computer should I buy? I know Dell computer is not well supported 
> from lm_sensor. Can I buy some models of HP computers? Can I buy the 
> computer from BestBuy or CircuitCity?

Well Dell is often doing the sensors stuff diferently, so don't buy that for the 
lm-sensors. HP? I dont know.

Maybe you can consider buying a computer assembled from "classic" components for 
example, with some Asus motherboard. Perhaps you dont need HP or Dell stiker on 
your computer anyway...

You dont need to assemble the components yourself, majority of computer shops 
offer already built computers from "classic" components.

I hope it helps,

regards
Rudolf

[lm-sensors] Any suggestion on buying a new computer with

[Yongkui Han]

Hi Rudolf,

Thank you very much.

I think I will adopt your suggestions. I can buy a Asus motherboard, and
Pentium 4 cpu, and other computer components.

Could you suggest me one combination of "classic" components? I am not
familiar with motherboards, don't know which Asus motherboards are
"classic".

Thanks!

Yongkui

On 9/20/06, Rudolf Marek <r.marek at sh.cvut.cz > wrote:
>
> Hi Han,
>
> > I will buy a new computer with Pentium 4 CPU. I will install Linux
> > operating system, and I wanna run lm_sensor package on this new computer
>
> > to read temperature sensor values.
> >
> > What computer should I buy? I know Dell computer is not well supported
> > from lm_sensor. Can I buy some models of HP computers? Can I buy the
> > computer from BestBuy or CircuitCity?
>
> Well Dell is often doing the sensors stuff diferently, so don't buy that
> for the
> lm-sensors. HP? I dont know.
>
> Maybe you can consider buying a computer assembled from "classic"
> components for
> example, with some Asus motherboard. Perhaps you dont need HP or Dell
> stiker on
> your computer anyway...
>
> You dont need to assemble the components yourself, majority of computer
> shops
> offer already built computers from "classic" components.
>
> I hope it helps,
>
> regards
> Rudolf
>
>
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[lm-sensors] Any suggestion on buying a new computer with

[Yongkui Han]

Hi Rudolf,

Pentium 4 CPU is necessary for me. I cannot use Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 as
the CPU. So I must choose one Asus motherboard which supports Pentium 4 CPU.
Any suggestions?


I found some Asus motherboards which support Pentium 4 on the following
weblinks:
http://motherboards.bizrate.com/motherboards/brand--asus/processor_type--pentium_4/products__att259--43486-__att7--306024-__rf--mot006.html

The following Asus motherboards seems new, which one is the best for me to
run lm_sensors package?  I am interested in reading temperature sensor
values with lm-sensors.
ASUS P5ND2-SLI Motherboard<http://motherboards.bizrate.com/motherboards/pid375875100/compareprices.html>
ASUS P4S800D-X Motherboard<http://motherboards.bizrate.com/motherboards/pid298843742/compareprices.html>
ASUS P5LD2 Deluxe
Motherboard<http://motherboards.bizrate.com/motherboards/pid328547032/compareprices.html>
ASUS P5LD2-VM Motherboard<http://motherboards.bizrate.com/motherboards/pid332389047/compareprices.html>


 Thanks!

Look forward to hearing from you.

Yongkui


On 9/21/06, Rudolf Marek <r.marek at sh.cvut.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Please do not start new thread, it is not necessary. This is the list of
> components we used to buy for our new office computer:
>
> Midi ATX 5410+USB metal blue 300wP4,Eurocase
> LOGITECH Optical Wheel Mouse (U96)-White, USB OEM
> Arctic Cooling FREEZER 7 Pro, 6x heat pipe, skt. 775
> NEC ND-4570 DVD?RW / bulk / white
> 19" SAMSUNG LCD 940B / Height / Pivot / DVI / Black / 8ms
> HDD Hitachi T7K250 / 200GB / HDT722520-DLA380 / 8MB/ SATA300
> 1024MB DDR2 533MHz CL4 Kingston
> VGA ASUS EN6200TC TD / 256MB DDR / DVI / PCI-E / 6200TC
> MB ASUS P5B / i965 / DDR2 / Wi-Fi / PCI-E / 775
> Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 / 1,86GHz / 1066MHz / 2MB/ 775
>
> The motherboard has fairly recent chip W83627DHG, support is not yet in
> kernel.
> But I believe this is still quite a good choice for you. On the other hand
> it
> will require you to patch/build the latest kernel for yourself and I dont
> know
> if you can handle it.
>
> So all in all if you buy this, it is good computer, but it will take some
> time
> until the distributions will adopt the new kernel - with the support of
> this new
> chip.
>
> I hope it helps,
>
> regards
> Rudolf
>
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[lm-sensors] Any suggestion on buying a new computer with

[Jean Delvare]

> Pentium 4 CPU is necessary for me. I cannot use Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 as
> the CPU. So I must choose one Asus motherboard which supports Pentium 4 CPU.
> Any suggestions?

There are hundreds of Pentium 4 motherboards. And Pentium 4 doesn't
mean much either, as there are at least 6 families of Pentium 4 with
verying sockets.

Don't ask us to choose for you, it doesn't make sense. All we can tell
you is the level of support of a given hardware monitoring chip or a
given SMBus. All the rest is up to you to search.

-- 
Jean Delvare

[lm-sensors] Any suggestion on buying a new computer with

[Yongkui Han]

Hi Jean,

How do you think of this CybertronPC computer. It has a Asus *Asus P5V800-MX
Socket LG775 *motherboard.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo"24189&sku¡22-3502

Do you think this motherboard supports lm-sensors well? If so, I will
probably buy this computer.

Thanks!

Yongkui


On 9/21/06, Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> wrote:
>
> > Pentium 4 CPU is necessary for me. I cannot use Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
> as
> > the CPU. So I must choose one Asus motherboard which supports Pentium 4
> CPU.
> > Any suggestions?
>
> There are hundreds of Pentium 4 motherboards. And Pentium 4 doesn't
> mean much either, as there are at least 6 families of Pentium 4 with
> verying sockets.
>
> Don't ask us to choose for you, it doesn't make sense. All we can tell
> you is the level of support of a given hardware monitoring chip or a
> given SMBus. All the rest is up to you to search.
>
> --
> Jean Delvare
>
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[lm-sensors] Any suggestion on buying a new computer with

[Jean Delvare]

> How do you think of this CybertronPC computer. It has a Asus *Asus P5V800-MX
> Socket LG775 *motherboard.
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo"24189&skuÁ22-3502
> 
> Do you think this motherboard supports lm-sensors well? If so, I will
> probably buy this computer.

Can't tell for sure without having my hands on it, and nobody ever
reported with that board, but it appears to have an ITE IT8712F
Super-I/O chip, and this chip has hardware monitoring functions and is
perfectly supported for a long time. So I'd say it's OK.

-- 
Jean Delvare

[lm-sensors] Any suggestion on buying a new computer with

[Yongkui Han]

Hi Jean,

Thank you very much for your reply.

You said "but it appears to have an ITE IT8712F Super-I/O chip", could you
please give me a weblink about this? I am interested in finding its
inside chip information for the motherboard.

Thanks!

Yongkui


On 9/21/06, Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> wrote:
>
> > How do you think of this CybertronPC computer. It has a Asus *Asus
> P5V800-MX
> > Socket LG775 *motherboard.
> >
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo"24189&skuÁ22-3502
> >
> > Do you think this motherboard supports lm-sensors well? If so, I will
> > probably buy this computer.
>
> Can't tell for sure without having my hands on it, and nobody ever
> reported with that board, but it appears to have an ITE IT8712F
> Super-I/O chip, and this chip has hardware monitoring functions and is
> perfectly supported for a long time. So I'd say it's OK.
>
> --
> Jean Delvare
>
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[lm-sensors] Any suggestion on buying a new computer with

[Jean Delvare]

> Thank you very much for your reply.
> 
> You said "but it appears to have an ITE IT8712F Super-I/O chip", could you
> please give me a weblink about this? I am interested in finding its
> inside chip information for the motherboard.

http://www.bgslevi.cz/image/AsusP5V800MX.jpg

-- 
Jean Delvare

[lm-sensors] Any suggestion on buying a new computer with

[Yongkui Han]

Hi Jean,

Thanks!

I think this motherboard will work for me. Your answer is very helpful.

You guys are so nice. I greatly appreciate your help!

Regards,
Yongkui


On 9/21/06, Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> wrote:
>
> > Thank you very much for your reply.
> >
> > You said "but it appears to have an ITE IT8712F Super-I/O chip", could
> you
> > please give me a weblink about this? I am interested in finding its
> > inside chip information for the motherboard.
>
> http://www.bgslevi.cz/image/AsusP5V800MX.jpg
>
> --
> Jean Delvare
>
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