Wanted - Recommendation of good motherboard for AMD Athlon 64 X2

Wanted - Recommendation of good motherboard for AMD Athlon 64 X2

[Marc Perkel]

I'm leaning towards scrappung my Ass motherboard for having a LOT of 
Linux problems. Looking for a recommendation of what to replace it with.

I want something that is highly Linux frendly and "just works".

Running Athlon 64 X2 4400+
Needs 4 SATA ports - prefer SATA II
VGA on MB would be nice but not required.
MUST run with 4 gigs of ram. I have Kingston HyperX which should be 
plenty fast.
I'm running Fedora Core 4 on it.
I'm Running Maxtor drives that support NCQ even though the SATA 
interface is 1.5gb

I don't need raid.

What out there actually works.

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Re: Wanted - Recommendation of good motherboard for AMD Athlon 64 X2

[Marc Perkel]

Marc Perkel wrote:

> I'm leaning towards scrappung my Ass motherboard for having a LOT of 
> Linux problems. Looking for a recommendation of what to replace it with.
>
> I want something that is highly Linux frendly and "just works".
>
> Running Athlon 64 X2 4400+
> Needs 4 SATA ports - prefer SATA II
> VGA on MB would be nice but not required.
> MUST run with 4 gigs of ram. I have Kingston HyperX which should be 
> plenty fast.
> I'm running Fedora Core 4 on it.
> I'm Running Maxtor drives that support NCQ even though the SATA 
> interface is 1.5gb
>
> I don't need raid.
>
> What out there actually works.
>
oh - and - I forgot to mention this  NO NVidia chips. That's what I'm 
trying to get away from because of lack of Linux support.

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Re: Wanted - Recommendation of good motherboard for AMD Athlon 64 X2

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Marc Perkel wrote:

> I'm leaning towards scrappung my Ass motherboard for having a LOT of Linux 
> problems. Looking for a recommendation of what to replace it with.
>
> I want something that is highly Linux frendly and "just works".

The via k8t800 based boards has "just worked" from day 1 for me going back 
to my socket 754 athlon 64 3000+ which is now fairly old.

As a brdige chipset it's starting to show it's age since it's agp rather 
than pci-x.

> Running Athlon 64 X2 4400+
> Needs 4 SATA ports - prefer SATA II
> VGA on MB would be nice but not required.
> MUST run with 4 gigs of ram. I have Kingston HyperX which should be plenty 
> fast.

I sort of afraid of running machines with 4GB or more of ram without ecc 
memory, but that could be a personal fetish... at this level that argues 
in favor of a socket 940 rather than 939.



> I'm running Fedora Core 4 on it.
> I'm Running Maxtor drives that support NCQ even though the SATA interface is 
> 1.5gb
>
> I don't need raid.

most of the amd64 systems I build are for servers and most of those have 
tyan mainboards at this point.

I'm sort of fascinated with the asrock/uli chipset mainboards that's 
floating around but I have actually splurged yet, and I haven't had a uli 
chipset mainboard since my cyrix 5x86mx 100 died a couple years ago.

http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20050916/index.html

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157081

> What out there actually works.
>
>

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Re: Wanted - Recommendation of good motherboard for AMD Athlon 64 X2

[Robert Hancock]

Marc Perkel wrote:
> oh - and - I forgot to mention this  NO NVidia chips. That's what I'm 
> trying to get away from because of lack of Linux support.

Where is the lack of Linux support? The only feature I know of that's 
not supported under Linux is the NCQ support on the nForce4 SATA 
controller..

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Re: Wanted - Recommendation of good motherboard for AMD Athlon 64 X2

[Marc Perkel]

Robert Hancock wrote:

> Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>> oh - and - I forgot to mention this  NO NVidia chips. That's what I'm 
>> trying to get away from because of lack of Linux support.
>
>
> Where is the lack of Linux support? The only feature I know of that's 
> not supported under Linux is the NCQ support on the nForce4 SATA 
> controller..
>
And lack of an ethernet driver. I had to install an Intel card to get 
Ethernet to work.

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Re: Wanted - Recommendation of good motherboard for AMD Athlon 64 X2

[Robert Hancock]

Marc Perkel wrote:
> And lack of an ethernet driver. I had to install an Intel card to get 
> Ethernet to work.

How so? forcedeth should work fine..

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Re: Wanted - Recommendation of good motherboard for AMD Athlon 64 X2

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 18 September 2005 22:59, Robert Hancock wrote:
>Marc Perkel wrote:
>> And lack of an ethernet driver. I had to install an Intel card to get
>> Ethernet to work.
>
>How so? forcedeth should work fine..

It certainly does here.

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