I'm attempting a dual core upgrade on a MSI Neo2 Platinum. It requires a BIOS upgrade which just won't boot linux as far as I can tell. Anyone got a Socket 939 Mobo which will run 64 bit gentoo with a dual core?
http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=89036.0 I've been running a few copies of the Neo2 Platinum and one thing to watch out for is flakey RAM. Had two batches of OCZ RAM go back for warranty replacement followed by a few "emerge -e world" to fix the carnage on the harddrive left behind. BTW, 10K RPM SATA drives give some good numbers with an odd error # hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 4016 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2007.87 MB/sec HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Timing buffered disk reads: 206 MB in 3.02 seconds = 68.21 MB/sec HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device --- Drew Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been very happy with both nforce 3 & nforce 4 > MSI motherboards. > I've built some graphics clusters with them, and a > number of > workstations, no problems as of yet. You will need > some sort of video > card, but there are a number of cheap ones that > would work fine. A > PCI-Express 6200 nvidia card can be had for well > under $100 now. > > > On 10/17/05, P.V.Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > James Pattinson wrote: > > > > > If you have a mobo that you'd recommend for use > with gentoo-amd64, could > > > you please let me know? > > > > I am using the MSI Neo 4 Platinum. So far so good. > > > > It has two ethernet ports. One is the forcedeth > and the other is Marvell. > > > > It has 8 sata ports. No built in graphics card. > > > > P.V.Anthony > > -- > > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > > __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list