All; I am just setting out to build a couple of boxes. One will be based on the Athlon 64. My question is: What mobo(s) are preferred with Suse Linux? Any advise will be greatly appreciated. -Ric
On Monday 03 January 2005 6:41 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
All; I am just setting out to build a couple of boxes. One will be based on the Athlon 64. My question is: What mobo(s) are preferred with Suse Linux?
Any advise will be greatly appreciated.
-Ric
I always hate to answer these questions because it seems someone smarter, wiser, more experienced then rebutts with all the things I have not seen or found. With that disclaimer: I have been using MSI K8T Neo FISR for several months now, AMD 64 3000+. I have two SATA drives attached to the main SATA, CD/DVD as drive hdc and DVD writer as drive hdd. When I tried to attach IDE ATA drives to the additional SATA/ATA Promise chip I got lock-up or refusal to boot with 9.0. I did not need the disks, just wanted to see if it would all work. Dis-connected, and have not really tried with 9.2, stock. Install was a very mild adventure: upgrade would not recognize the SATA drives and could not be talked into it, clean install had no problem finding and using the drives. Running 9.2 now, solid, fast, happy. What few issues I see now seem related to video: I am a baby nvidia user. Richard
On Monday 03 January 2005 11:21 pm, Richard wrote:
On Monday 03 January 2005 6:41 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
All; I am just setting out to build a couple of boxes. One will be based on the Athlon 64. My question is: What mobo(s) are preferred with Suse Linux?
Any advise will be greatly appreciated.
-Ric
I always hate to answer these questions because it seems someone smarter, wiser, more experienced then rebutts with all the things I have not seen or found. With that disclaimer:
I like your disclaimer, so I'll use it too! Mine is a gigabyte K8 Triton Series. GA-K8NS Pro with nForce3 250 chipset and AMD64 3000+ with SuSE 9.2. IDE1 has an older 20 gig hd with windows installed as hda and a zip 100 as hdb. both work fine (although I fought the zip for a while) IDE2 has a dvd recorder as hdc and a cd reader as hdd. Both work. Even burned a dvd. IDE3 and 4 with built in gigaRaid IT8212 is disabled, unused, and untested by me. 2 SATA nForce3 250 with only one drive as sda 2 SATA Sil3512 unused, and untested by me. SATA raid (both nForce and Sil (disabled) are unused) Built -in Marvell 8001 On-Board (10/100/1000 Mbit) works Two issues. First I had to do a bios upgrade. Second I had to install and run with acpi turned off. Been a good solid install so far. Doug
On Monday 03 January 2005 6:41 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
All; I am just setting out to build a couple of boxes. One will be based on the Athlon 64. My question is: What mobo(s) are preferred with Suse Linux?
Asus K8VSE Deluxe board here with an Athlon 64 3200+... No probs whatsoever with the board or the built-in peripherals; everything was detected automatically. Note that an Athlon 64 will damn near heat your home. Make sure the whole inside of the case is cooled adequately, not just the CPU itself, as I learned the hard way--I had some severe data loss problems til I traced it to a hard drive not getting enough air flowing past it. I'm serious-- I live in a fairly small place and have gas heat. One night my gas ran out. I closed off the computer room and slept in it fairly comfortably. :)
Another successful combination: ASUS A8V Deluxe] Athon 64 3500+ (Winchester core) 1GB Crucial Memory (equiv to ASUS-recommended Micron 512MB parts. http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket939/a8v-d/overview.htm For a quiet system, try the Antec Sonata case. jerry bookter:
Note that an Athlon 64 will damn near heat your home.
Really? Are you talking about the 135nm Newcastle core? My 90nm Winchester normally sits around 80-85F and gets only as high as 100F on a heavy load. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
-----Original Message----- From: Doug B [mailto:suse@hatterhill.com] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 11:53 PM To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Prefered mobo On Monday 03 January 2005 11:21 pm, Richard wrote:
On Monday 03 January 2005 6:41 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
All; I am just setting out to build a couple of boxes. One will be based on the Athlon 64. My question is: What mobo(s) are preferred with Suse Linux?
Any advise will be greatly appreciated.
-Ric
I always hate to answer these questions because it seems someone smarter, wiser, more experienced then rebutts with all the things I have not seen or found. With that disclaimer:
Ok here we go...... I also have a Triton Gigabyte K8NS pro with nforce3 250 AMD 3400+ with 1 gig of DDR400. And it works fantastic. I don't use the sata ports or raid functions though I DO have an adaptec 1200a raid card that works fantasticly AND I have the IT8212 IDE3 and 4 up and working and have no problems although configuring them is a bit tricky it is very simple as well I did not have to do a bios upgrade but I had to start in acpi=off until the latest kernel upgrade
I am running on a ASUS A8V Deluxe Board and I haven't had not one problem
with it so far in Linux 9.2.
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From: "Ric Tibbetts"
All; I am just setting out to build a couple of boxes. One will be based on the Athlon 64. My question is: What mobo(s) are preferred with Suse Linux?
Any advise will be greatly appreciated.
-Ric
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Tirsdag 04 januar 2005 03:41 skrev Ric Tibbetts:
All; I am just setting out to build a couple of boxes. One will be based on the Athlon 64. My question is: What mobo(s) are preferred with Suse Linux?
Well MSI K8N Neo2 -54G (MSI 7025) is still a little to fresh even for SuSE 9.2 Gentoo does it way better with respect to that board ;-)
Any advise will be greatly appreciated.
-Ric
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A1C Dominick Alan Obermeyer -
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