my personal opinion is abit blows but that is from my own bad experiences with the IT5H and BP6.
if you want athlon i would wait for asus's new board A7V, many reviewers seem to agree that it has the best features. it should be out anytime.. nate On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: rbrito > rbrito > Dear Friends, rbrito > rbrito > My ole, trustworthy computer seems to be having problems rbrito > lately (its got some problems with the video card -- it's rbrito > freezing while I'm in X and I'm starting to doubt that the rbrito > memory chips are ok -- and its battery is dead). :-( rbrito > rbrito > So, I'm looking for a new computer and it seems that an Abit rbrito > KA7-100 motherboard is a good place to start along with an rbrito > Athlon processor (the board specs are amazing -- but then, I'm rbrito > really not a hardware person). rbrito > rbrito > However, I've tried to do my homework and it seems to have rbrito > some problems running Linux (e.g., people seem to be having rbrito > trouble getting UDMA to work or trying to get sound cards rbrito > sharing interrupts with NICs when KA7-100 is used). rbrito > rbrito > In light of this, I'd like to know what your experiences with rbrito > this motherboard and Debian are: is it a "dangerous" purchase rbrito > or can I buy it without any worries? Is it stable? Should I rbrito > look for something else? What? An Asus K7V? rbrito > rbrito > I'm not well-versed with hardware in general and I'd like a rbrito > little hand helding. Of course, the first thing I'll do when I rbrito > get a new computer is to install Debian (and nothing else) and rbrito > recompile a 2.2 kernel probably with some patches -- so I have rbrito > no problems if, say, current versions don't work, but fixes rbrito > are expected soon. rbrito > rbrito > I'm really interested in any feedback and other rbrito > recommendations. Please post to the list. rbrito > rbrito > rbrito > Thank you very much for any pointers, Roger... rbrito > rbrito >-- rbrito >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= rbrito > Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ rbrito > Nectar homepage: http://www.linux.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/nectar/ rbrito >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= rbrito > rbrito > rbrito >-- rbrito >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null rbrito > ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8:08pm up 15 days, 3:35, 2 users, load average: 0.18, 0.04, 0.01
