On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 22:28, fred smith wrote: > Gang: > > I'm about to buy a bunch of parts to build a new machine, and am looking > for suggestions/referrals on the motherboard to use. > > I'm interested in an Athlon XP 2600+ (because that seems to be the sweet > spot, pricewise) and there are a ton of motherboards that can support > that processor. > > One MB that has caught my eye is the Gigabyte GA-7VT600-L, a Via KT600 > chipset board. It also has integrated audio and LAN, using Realtec ALC-655 > audio chipset and Realtec 8101L 10/100 LAN chipset. I'd appreciate it if > any of you know of how well this board and these chipsets are supported > in a modern Linux if you'd let me know. This Gigabyte board can be > purchased today for US$63 from newegg (not a plug, just a fact). > > Alternatively, I'd also appreciate suggestions for similarly priced boards > that are known to work well (I'd like to not go much over about $80). (I'm > leaning away from an Nvidia chipset board merely because I don't want to > depend on nvidia for closed-source drivers for the board, though I could > perhaps be convinced otherwise!) One small caveat is I need two serial > ports, and some new boards come with only one (I'm using both a serial modem > and serial UPS). > > I'm not certain which LInux I'm ultimately going to end up using either, > but probably one of Fedora FC1/FC2, or maybe one of the RHEL 3 derivatives, > Whitebox or Tao. > > Feedback will be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance! I've had really good success with the Tyan boards (both MP and MPX single and dual proc respectively). I Honestly don't remember the pricing on the boards though. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
