Hi,
I need to buy four new machines for the office to be used as workstations, and was after some guidance on the motherboard and CPU. Will probably equip them with 256M of ram and the Matrox G450 Video card and 20G IDE Hard disk.
Can anyone recommend a decent motherboard that works without problems. A few of my friends have had problems with the AMD processors and recommend
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:31:49 +1100
Graham Smith
I think the main problems is getting a stable board that is specifically designed for the AMD processors.
Any help would be appreciated.
I have just been through the process of replacing the internals in my machine. After my experiences with the Asus A7V133(A) I did not even bother to look at their offerings ... I settled for the Epox 8KHA+, an AMD XP 1600+ and DDR RAM. SuSE 7.2 Prof installed and has been working like a charm for the past week, I'll do a kernel compile this weekend. I am also using an nVidia 4x AGP (TNT2 M64 32MB), a SoundBlaster (aka Ensoniq 1371 PCI)(disabled the mobo's onboard pseudo sound card) and a 3COM905B. BTW. The mobo uses a Winbond W83697HF sensors chip that the sensors package does not have a driver for - I'll need to find one? Compared to my previous T-Bird 1.2GHz CPU based A7V133 - much faster and much, much cooler. HTH *** If you find a solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional and AMD Athlon XP1600+ Registered Linux User Lourens Steenkamp Republic of South Africa