On Sun, 15 May 2005, horst wrote: > I got a nice offer for a practically new box, either with K8N, or K8V ASUS > board, Athlon 64 2800. The K8N box has Win2000 on it, but I had some > limited time to inspect it from Knoppix 3.6 . There were problems > recognizing the onboard ethernet 'card', and the sound 'card'; a second > (real) NIC was recognized fine. Next time I'll get a chance to look at > either the K8N, or the K8V I'll be armed with Knoppix 3.8 . > > Search results pointing to individual posts are naturally more about > problems then satisfactory installs. So what are the more objective sites > to check hardware compatibility and other issues? > Here is one I found: > http://www.linux-tested.com/ > (also reporting problems with those onboard sound and network chips) > > - what are you using to check on linux hardware compatibility? > - anyone experience with the K8N or V8V boards ? > - what motherboard would you chose for a solid workstation (nothing > bleeding-edge/game oriented, just a significant improvement over my 5+ > years old K7 650MHz ((I haven't looked into motherboard issues since then > and, looking at the current market, feel like a newbie)) > > - Horst
After getting burned with an unreliable mother (Abit KD7 KT400) I followed advice from Shannon Dealey and perused the overclocking web sites. From there I selected a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2. I also selected RAM from that site. Works great. Of course I don't overclock. I leave that to children. -- Allen Brown work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Better a masochist than never been kissed. --- John Paul Stapp _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
