Re: Asus A7M266-D mainboard.

["Johannes Grødem" <st@kopkillah.com>]

* Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:

> Yes on the whole. BIOS version matters and there are problems sometimes
> with broadcomm nics and some other boards.

We thought we'd go with some Intel NICs.  (i82550-based, IIRC.)

> They suck power too so you need a big case 430W+ PSU and plenty of
> fans.

Hm.  They've only got 340W.  I'm thinking of getting this Asus-board
instead of some MSI-board (K7D Master-L) which seem to be broken, but
could the malfunctions (Tekram SCSI-controllers not working,
filesystem corruption, segfaults at weird places) be caused by too
little power?  Or would it just simply not work with too little power?
The cooling should be sufficient, though.

> The dual Athlons are pretty decent but they've lost the edge (from
> my current benchmarks) to Intel on speed with the 2.4GHz PIV.

It isn't that critical that they're fast so long as they're
reliable/stable.  If PIV is more reliable, maybe we should go for
those.  Do you have any motherboard-recommendations?  (I'm having a
hard time finding good hardware-advice when it comes to stability,
people seem to test mostly for performance.)

Thanks a lot for the response, by the way.

-- 
Johannes Grødem