This MB only uses DDR mem though. -----Original Message----- From: James Oakley [mailto:joakley@solutioninc.com] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 9:37 AM To: Paul Abrahams; SuSE listserve Subject: Re: [SLE] Re: Asus mainboards On September 20, 2001 01:43 pm, Paul Abrahams wrote:
Wolly Wicyrek wrote:
please don't abandon this thread. it is appropriate and useful. i assume that many in the linux avant garde are o.g. gearheads like me.
Okay. However, my problem is a bit different. Asus used to sell good motherboards (as of quality/stability).
Now, I am looking for another manufacturer selling stable and high quality mobos (which should not be slow, either, of course; good BIOS, etc. and not more expensive). Oh, and they must support the HLT instruction... and DMA with linux (Don't know on what DMA support precisely depends on; if it's the chipset, then KT133/266[A] should be OK.)
Any recommendations which brand to buy?
I've generally bought Tyans and have not had problems with them. But I haven't been using any processors > 1GHz.
I hear from everywhere that the Soyo K7VDRAGON is the best Athlon MB out there. It's supposed to be super-stable. There was an article on /. a while back praising it. I'm thinking of picking one up. -