> > There is a lot more than just soldiering the chipset on the board. Layout,
> > part selection, quality control, all play a part in the final product....
>
> molehill. the top 30 motherboard vendors all have more than enough
> clue to build fully functional boards. all the hard stuff is automated,
> and based on reference designs anyway. as I said, just about anything
> you buy will function at about the same performance, and with high-enough
> quality to outlast it's obsolescence. you're definitely safe with any BX
> board from certainly anything from Asus, Gigabyte, Intel, Aopen, Atrend,
> Abit, Tyan, DFI, MSI, Micronics, Soyo, Supermicro, Tekram, and probably
> others I couldn't think of.
Then why are tyan's more picky about ram, and supemicro's twice the price
of a gigabyte board. And also why do Linus and other kernel authors bother
with the black / white lists?
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