Kyuu 'Vekotin' Eturautti wrote: > >My best experiences by far have been with Abit KV8-Pro and AV8 boards, >both with K8T800 Pro chipsets. I have not used audio in a single >AMD64+Linux system though, but as for stability, quality and hardware >compatibility (except for audio, not tested) with Debian Pure64, I >haven't had any problems. As for onboard LAN, the via-velocity has >performed quite well. Via kindly provides sources that work with older >kernel versions too, as I believe the driver came with the kernel only >starting from 2.6.9. > >Personal and friends' recommendations suggest that problematic hardware >includes Asus and MSI (low quality, too many faulty products received) >and several nForce motherboards from various manufacturers (stability >issues). > >Experiences with Athlon64 Windows systems have provided similar results. >Abit+Via is a stable combination. > >I want to emphasize that I'm talking about only a bit over ten tested >systems with Debian Pure64 and none of these have been in workstation >use. But if I'd need a Linux workstation, I'd probably be betting on >K8T800 Pro or K8T890 as the chipset of choice and probably Abit as >motherboard. > >Out of your listed choices, I'd probably bet on Asus, due to the Via >chipset. I haven't had too many positive Asus experiences, but then >again, I haven't tested any in the past half year.
Hmmm. I'm surprised to hear of any bad experiences with Asus boards; of the last 10 machines I've built, 7 have been Asus and they've been incredibly stable. My current A8V Deluxe-based workstation runs very well with amd64, with lovely performance and no problems at all. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]