I'm the not-so-proud owner of an Abit KT7A-RAID. It has plauged me since the day I purchased it with instability and poor disk IO performance. It uses the Via KT133A chipset, which guarantees you many headaches if you plan to use an SBLive with it. Both Via and Creative admit that a problem exists between them, but neither company accepts responsibility. Search groups.google.com for kt7a and sblive if you don't trust my advice alone. There is an excellent KT7 FAQ at: http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/kt7faq.htm And a KG7 FAQ here (I know nothing about the KG7): http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kg7kr7/kg7kr7faq.htm I'm not sure about SuSE 7.3, but the stock 7.1 2.4.0 kernel had no support for the Via KT133A...this may be something to look into as well. David A. Riggs On Sunday 04 November 2001 07:14 am, Jon Clausen wrote:
I'm about to build a new workstation for myself. Being pretty much out of touch with hardware specifications these days (which chipsets go with what, et al) I would greatly appreciate comments/recommendations regarding this combination of hardware:
Mainboard: Abit KT7A -or Abit,KG7-lite CPU AMD,TB 1.333/266 (Socket A) Cooler Coolermaster,DP5-6I11A Ram DDR 512MB PC2100 266MHz Case WorldTop,WTY400 Midi P3/P4 HDD Maxtor,DiamondMax Plus 60 DVD Toshiba,SD-M1502
I plan to keep my Matrox Graphics cards (MGA 2064W/MGA 2164W) for my dualhead setup. As well as my SB live Platinum soundcard.
The above list is based on what I can get, at a decent price, from one single vendor:
www.bridema.dk
this is more of a convenience matter than anything...
Also the HD/DVD are just something. If anyone might recommend otherwise, I'm open to suggestions... Priorities for the HDD are mainly "be quiet", should be at least 20/30 GB, and perform o.k. (The DiamondMax plus 60 (60GB), is one of the cheapest drives at Bridema... I wonder why...)
About the dvd, well, it's mostly going to be for data, but I guess once I get a (some) proper videocard(s) it would be nice to be able to watch movies...
This is for a 7.3 install (I'm getting it next week)
What I plan to do is build the new machine, and when it's up and running, to move the HD which contains my /home partition.
Any heads up, in that department? Like the removal of kde-configfiles (since I guess there will be a new kde version on the new machine), making sure my account on the new machine gets that same UID, or stuff like that...
TIA
Jon Clausen
-- 5:26pm up 3 days, 28 min, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00