Hi Gustin :) > The 939 based motherboards I have had a good deal of success with. It > is the newer chipsets based around the AM2 platform that are sketchy (I > know it is only anecdotal, but I have yet to have a good Linux > experience with either the nVidia or ATI AM2 chipsets, though if you > have to choose, the nVidia one seems to have mostly settled down). > > It sucks that non-hardware geeks have to pay attention to the chipsets > these days. You would think that those days were in the past by now. > For anyone else looking to purchase hardware, I have recently gone back > to the Intel camp. Their stuff seems to just work under Linux. Hi Gustin :)
I wonder if any other mobo with my chipsets causes troubles with Linux DAWs. Northbridge: AMD690G Southbridge: ATI SB600 (Storage for the HDDs is fine, there's just a LBA/CHS inconsistency that doesn't matter) Integrated ATI Radeon X1250-based (It sucks, but it's fine with the Vesa driver) Realtec ALC883 (The Audio device sucks, like all integrated audio devices I know, driver is the ALSA intel driver, I disabled the audio device, so Linux has no trouble with it, ALC883 reserves analogue mixer architecture for backward compatibility with AC'97) When I bought my CPU AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core Revision G2 Stepping, it seems to be state of the art, but now there is a 4xxxe series, with nearly the same data, minimal better than my BE-2350, but less expensive and Vcore is 1,15V - 1,25V. My CPU's Vcore is 1,25V, but the BIOS only supports Auto = +1.20V, +1.20V, +1.30V, +1.40V, +1.50V. The real voltage is 1,20V - 1,21V and I wonder if the difference of 0,04V - 0,05V can cause instability when running a DAW. For older CPUs a difference of 0,1V is okay. Cheers, Ralf
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