Wow - ASUS bottom of the list for everyone. That's a shame since they win so many awards for the quality of components etc. How much of a problem can Asus' lack of support be? I guess that most Nforce4 boards are pretty much like any other Nforce4 board? Is it a lack of information from Asus, or people just deciding that Asus' attitude sucks, that stop Asus boards being any good for running Linux? After all, how much support do people actually get from the other motherboard manufacturers? I don't know the answer to this. I had a closer look at the MSI SLI-FI motherboard, and initially I thought it looked a really good deal (www.savastore.com has them for £60 plus VAT). However, closer inspection reveals that when running in SLI mode, the bandwidth of the PCI-E bus appears to be shared between the 2 channels (i.e. both cards run at x8). Am I right in thinking that "normal" SLI boards have dedicated x16 channels for each card, not sharing them when in SLI mode? Okay, okay, so I guess I'm never going to get close to the petabytes/sec theoretical limit of the PCI-E bus, but you never know ;) Thanks for people's suggestions. Regards, Jon. Felix Miata wrote:
On 06/03/21 10:59 Jonathan Brooks apparently typed:
What pecking order do you put for motherboard manufacturers?
Intel Tyan Gigabyte Abit
MSI FIC Epox Supermicro AOpen Biostar DFI
Chaintech Jetway Foxconn - isn't this another ECS brand? PCChips - another ECS brand ECS - lousy support, and not much better products Asus - no support if they find out you don't use M$ OS
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