I have a ECS K7S5A based on the Sis 735 chipset, very good stuff. It's by far the cheapest board arround here in Belgium (costs about half of the second-cheapest).
Performance is very good, and stability is excellent. Apart from me, I know 3 other people that own one and they're all happy with it. 2 of them are also running Mandrake 9 like me. The board has LAN onboard, which is very good, it is faster than the Intel 10/100 PCI NIC I had before. If I'm not mistaken the better performance of the onboard NIC is achieved because it doesn't have to go through the PCI bus (I could be wrong here). One piece of advice, stay as far away from Asus as you can! I had an A7V133A (the second one), and it crashed 5-6 times a day. I've documented the design flaw in that board on my site: http://unixmafia.port5.com (under news/special features/overheating problems on...). I recently saw an article in the Inquerer (http://www.theinquirer.net) that there newer series are still suffering from this. I hope this helps. Kind regards Guy On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 19:56, Dan Axtell wrote: > I'm planning to upgrade my motherboard/CPU combo to an Athlon XP system. > I'm not looking for overclocking or onboard sound & video (all the > networking, sound and graphics will be using existing boards), just a > solid, reliable motherboard that works well with Mandrake 9.0 Any > recommendations? > > Thanks, > Dan > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Guy Van Sanden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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