Hi, Hmm, thanks Hans! I am feeling so much better about choosing to buy an Asus board ;-) Well, can't say I wasn't warned...... Alvaro: am I right in thinking that the only advantage of the Premium is the heat pipe cooling the northbridge? I have a Gigabyte K8N Ultra9 (nforce4) AMD64 X2 SuSE 10 system at work, and you could fry an egg (seriously) on the passively cooled northbridge. I'm not sure I would trust a heat pipe. Thanks again, Jon. Alvaro Franco wrote:
Asus K8N-SLI Premium here, AMD Athlon 64 x2, works like a charm with SuSE Linux for x86_64. Cool'N'Quiet works, gigabit adapters are working, havent' tried the firewire, audio or sata connectors yet. It has 1 GB RAM + 120 GB Hdisk.
Check it out :
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My 2 cents...
On 3/22/06, *Jonathan Brooks*
mailto:jonathan.brooks@human-anatomy.oxford.ac.uk> wrote: Hi!
Thanks for all the feedback - it's only going to be a regular PC, not a server/workstation so I think I'll go with my initial thought which was to go with Asus (A8N-SLI Deluxe). I may end up running Linux through VMware anyway, so the hardware is sort of irrelevant....
Best wishes,
Jon.
Mike Marion wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:43:34AM +0000, Jonathan Brooks wrote: > >> I Xposted on suse-linux-e, and consensus seemed to place Tyan somewhere >> near the top, and Asus rock bottom. That's a shame about Asus since they >> are nice boards to work with :( Anyone else got a view on this? > > Running an Asus A8N-SLI Delux that's working like a charm. Running > Gentoo though. > > I tend to take most motherboard talks with a grain of salt.. too many > people's opinions are based on one bad experience. I've had nothing but > good experiences with Asus mobo's (a video card a few years ago is > another story). > > I've got experience with opterons now on Asus, Tyan, HDAMA (rev F and > G), VIA (I think It's VIA), HP's own, etc.. they're all about the same > really. > > My experience in motherboards is that I've only had one actually fail on > me.. and it was a Tyan. Of course I tend to upgrade my personal > computers too often to see failures (other then hdd, fdd or CD drives). > At work.. I'd say it's pretty even across the brands. >
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