Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (166 mails)

[Jonathan Brooks <jonathan.brooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

_very_ happy with my Giga-byte GA-K8N Ultra-9 (i.e. Nforce4 Ultra) mobo.
Only 3 PCI slots, but 2 PCI-express (short ones) and one PCI-E for the 
graphics card - lets face it do you really need SLI (unless you want 
Quake4 @ 1600*1200, 4AA, high def blah, blah)?

It's a 939 pin board, and dual-core compatible.

HTH,

Jon.

Lonn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at some barebones rigs with Athlon64 3400 in the socket
>
> A vendor offers Athlon64 3400 on many boards - some easy to weed out.
>
> Do all the devices on these boards work well with SUSE?
>
> Abit AN8 Ultra nF4 chipset - this board is loaded
>
> Abit KN8 Ultra nF4 chipset - about the same as above, but less RAID, and
> less IEEE1394
>
> MSI K8N NEO4 Platinum - loaded but SATA not 3G, no RAID
>
> It bugs me that most boards now offer only 3 PCI slots.
>
> Would you suggest a loaded board that doesn't cost an arm and a leg?
> Especially, do you use one  with built in 802.11g? Does that present any
> limiting issues such as incompatibility with some or many wireless routers?
>
> Lonn

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