Folks,
First of all, I always appreciate reading the comments and replies to
the questions. They are very useful.
Recently there was a thread about a AMD64 setup but there was no
clear mention of specific mobos that Simply Works. So I'd like to have
recommendations from folks who actually are running successfully an AMD
dual-core processor.
I presently have a MSI K8N Neo4 SLI mobo and it's certainly not
working well. I sent it also to California during the MSI recall for
the dual-core update. Didn't change much:
- USB does not work
- Audio is only stereo (although it annouces 7.1 - not very
encouraging)
- SuSE 10.0 (and 9.3) gets confused about the two ethernet ports
I have to fix them manually.
- SATA Raid support is software-based (even though it has two
different HW interfaces)
- Audacity sometimes says it can't play any audio (could be an OS
thing)
Firewire works, as well as everything else ;-) So I use it, and I
like the speed, especially with the 4 GB of RAM. I have a Zalman fan,
and, very quiet power supply, amd quiet case fans, so it's not too bad.
But I would like to get a mobo with which everything works and on
which it is possible to expand (eg. adding a M Audio card for instance)
with problems. Hardware SATA raid would be a plus, but I can live with
SW raid.
Anyone out there effectively using an AMD dual-core CPU with a 64-bit
mainboard for MIDI sequencing and audio recording purposes without
having to fiddle around a good percentage of the time ?
If so, I'd like to get the exact mobo description and I'll do
everything to get one exactly like that. Please also tell which distro
is used.
Thanks !
Al
