-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 December 2003 03:55 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >> Kent West wrote: > >>> Anyone know of any hardware-review sites from a Linux > >>> perspective? > >>> > >>> I'm looking to buy a replacement motherboard . . . . > >> > >> I can tell you that there are currently unresolvod issues with the > >> timing on an AMD/nForce combination. There are patches available, > >> but it gets to be a pain after while if you want to upgrade the > >> kernel. > >> > >> -Roberto > > > > So you're suggesting I stay away from boards with nForce chipsets? > > from nForce video cards? both? > > The nForce is the mobo chipset (not the graphics chip). If I had it > to do over, I would get an AMD (which I already have) a mobo with VIA > chipset and no onboard anything (except maybe sound, since that is > not so important to me). Also, the onboard nForce takes a > proprietary binary-only driver to work. The nForce2 sound (a > modified i810) is pretty decent. > > -Roberto
The x86 architecture uses lots of power/electricity. You could try a lower power solution such as PPC, of which the following is only one example, and comes with Debian. The other well know vendor, for PPC, is Apple. http://www.pegasosppc.com/tech_specs.php - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/391gk7rtxKWZzGsRAolUAKCdyxqWJoxGfqxr0+VyGkevjivUegCcD0Rl rl3YVnXsfCpR5HFx9ShSOV0= =a3p3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
