From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261733AbTL1Qze (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 11:55:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261735AbTL1Qze (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 11:55:34 -0500 Received: from simmts7.bellnexxia.net ([206.47.199.165]:48874 "EHLO simmts7-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261733AbTL1Qzd (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 11:55:33 -0500 Message-ID: <3FEF0AFD.4040109@yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 11:55:25 -0500 From: Eugene User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: best AMD motherboard for Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sorry to bother you kernel hackers. I have a simple question. I am about to buy a new AMD Athlon system and I want to make sure I get the hardware that works best with Linux. I am wondering whether I should get a nForce 2 or KT600 based motherboard. Specifically, I am looking at Asus A7N8X-X http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socketa/a7n8x-x/overview.htm nForce 2 Realtek ALC650 sound card Realtek 8201BL network card and Gigabyte GA-7VT600-P-L http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-7VT600-P-L.htm Northbridge : VIA KT600 Southbridge : VIA VT8237 Realtek ALC655 AC97 sound card Realtek 8101L NIC My primary requiremnet is that it must work well with Linux. I can handle downloading & installing drivers. If it works out of the box (without downloading binary drivers) that's even better. I am also planning to get GeForce FX graphics card, if it makes a difference. So which board is more compatibile? thanks in advance, Eugene