On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:20:29AM +0000, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently contemplating going for an Athlon 64 system. However, > I'll primarily be using a Linux-based OS (Gentoo, namely), so I need > to know how well the chipsets are supported currently. > > I'd really like to go Via - but the crummy KT890 / VT8237 combo sucks > - mainly due to the lack of SATA II with NCQ. I share the sentiments > of the person in a post in the AnandTech forums > (http://tinyurl.com/6d9bx) who says: > > "The feature set on the K8T890 sucks. It was supposed to use the > VT8251 southbridge, bringing SATA-II/NCQ, HD Audio, etc. > Unfortunately, this southbridge has since dissappeared off the face of > the earth, and all the current K8T890 boards use the old VT8237. > nForce4, on the other hand, has SATA-II/NCQ, hardware firewall, nice > software overclocking/monitoring tools (ntune), gigabit lan, etc. On > top of that, performance and overclocking is pretty damn good. I was > at one point looking forward to the K8T890, but considering how much > of a joke the whole product line has been (lacking features, months of > delays with no explanation, lack of any variety of retail boards), I > have to say I'd avoid it like the plague."
Well, let's cut through the B.S. ;-) * Even when the SATA core is updated to support NCQ, nForce will not support it under Linux. No hardware info. * "hardware firewall" -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support it in any case. * overclocking -- overclockers are always playing with fire. any overclocked hardware is suspect and unsupportable. * via comes with gigabit lan these days. My own VIA-based Athlon64 system comes with r8169 gigabit. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/