On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 04:26:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm going to be buying a new main board and have a short list > all based on the nVidia nForce 590 SLI chipset. At this point,
> I'll be going with the Athlon AM2 (model depends on price when I get > it). > Most reviews are for Asus but have heard comments about decreasing > reliability after a couple of years. I've heard the same comments. > Tyan has great reliability and would be my first choice but their AM2 > uses the nVidia Pro chipset which nVidia says doesn't have mainstream > kernel drivers, they provide binary drivers for RHES and SLES. I'm not sure what's up with that comment. I've got a board with that chipset (Tyan K8WE) and it works fantastically. Like a rock. My previous system that I built was a Tyan something dual Athlon, built in July 2002, still running strong. I'm pretty sold on them at this point. The following functions work excellently for me: forcedeth driver for gigabit ports -- IP NAT between them USB2.0 ports -- both back panel and headers; audio SATA -- dual 200GB drives running raid1 for everything PATA -- DVD burner 4 x 512MB dual channel DDR ECC dual PCIe -- no SLI, it's just craptastic anyway nvidia I2C module -- sensors works quite well with stock Debian packages serial port What support is not included here that you would want? I don't recall anyone mentioning any problems with this board, apart from Sarge installation problems because of the need for recent 2.6.12+ kernels. Cheers, a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]