RE: [suse-amd64] Mobos/Chipsets for Athlon64 3200+ &SuSE Linux 9.x
Alain Black wrote:
I have an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum that I am quite pleased with. I use the Parallel ATA as well at SATA. The only piece that I have not tried yet is the firewire as I haven't had any digital editing to do since I hooked this system up.
I'm glad to hear that, as I am also looking at that board for my next computer. Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote:
I don't want to use Nvidia chipsets because of potential problems w/graphics. OK, there is VIA K8T800 Pro chipset.
I think you might be confusing the nvidia mobo chipsets with their graphics chipsets. The K8N Neo2 Platinum that Alain referred to above uses a nvidia gforce3 ultra I/O chip, and works quite well on various flavors of Linux, based on all the reports I've seen of it. Plus it has the built-in Gig-E interface, which can give you full Gig-E performance without sapping up bandwidth on the PCI bus. I do not believe the VIA K8T800 Pro has this feature. You don't need to use a nvida graphics card with this mobo; something from ATI should work just as well. Nvidia used to claim to have good support for their graphics chips on Linux systems. I'm not sure what the situation is now, so I would like to learn that as well. eyc
In message from chu@tes-mail.jpl.nasa.gov (Eugene Chu) (Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:48:31 -0700 (PDT)):
Alain Black wrote:
I have an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum that I am quite pleased with. I use the Parallel ATA as well at SATA. The only piece that I have not tried yet is the firewire as I haven't had any digital editing to do since I hooked this system up.
I'm glad to hear that, as I am also looking at that board for my next computer.
Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote:
I don't want to use Nvidia chipsets because of potential problems w/graphics. OK, there is VIA K8T800 Pro chipset.
I think you might be confusing the nvidia mobo chipsets with their graphics chipsets. Yes, you are right !
The K8N Neo2 Platinum that Alain referred to above uses a nvidia gforce3 ultra I/O chip, and works quite well on various flavors of Linux, based on all the reports I've seen of it.
Sorry, is it right also for 2.4 kernels,(and more exactly for SuSE 9.0) or for SuSE 9.1 ?
Plus it has the built-in Gig-E interface, which can give you full Gig-E performance without sapping up bandwidth on the PCI bus. I do not believe the VIA K8T800 Pro has this feature. I don't know details of integrated GigE controller for K8T800 Pro-based motherboards :-(
You don't need to use a nvida graphics card with this mobo; something from ATI should work just as well. Yes, ATI contoller is enough for us.
Yours Mikhail
Nvidia used to claim to have good support for their graphics chips on Linux systems. I'm not sure what the situation is now, so I would like to learn that as well.
eyc
On Monday 13 June 2005 17:29, Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote:
I don't know details of integrated GigE controller for K8T800 Pro-based motherboards :-(
I've two different K8T800 based motherboards, one with a 3com GigE controller, the other with a Realtec GigE controller. Both sit on the main PCI bus. -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/
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