On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 08:30, Tom Brinkman wrote: > N B, I've got a KT400a and 9.2. Basically the same chipset as > the KT600. Everything should work right out of the box. The 6 > channel VIA AC97 works great. You don't really need a 600 unless > your gonna use a XP 3200+ with 400Mhz FSB (the only difference > between the 400a and 600). Both my chipset and the KT600 support > SATA, but from all I've read, I'd stick to usin the ATA/133 ports, > and forget SATA with Linux. It won't be any faster, probly slower > than /133 anyhow. Thanks, Tom. You're right, of course. The main dif btw the two chipsets is the FSB speed. Its just that I've fallen in love with an EpoX board with the KT600. I got a small grant to build (I think that's what the committee liked - sweat equity) four lab workstations to run free software and National Semi's Labview for Linux, and could probably squeeze in the XP3200+ CPUs, but I sure don't have to for this application. They'll replace six Pentium 133 machines running Win95! The lab already has an nbd special KT333 computer running MDK 9.1. I know enough to stay away from the nForce chipsets.
I'm thinking of the future too; in two years the kid they hire to replace me (at twice my salary) can upgrade to the by-then cheap 400 MHz FSB CPUs and soup them up a bit. You're probably right that everything will work right out of the box, but I'm spending student technology fee money here so I'm a bit cautious. I wish I knew somebody with one of these boards; I'd bring my Knoppix disk to try it out. I presume the 2.6 kernel would solve it all in 2004 anyhow; maybe I can just take my time building them since they're not really needed until next summer. Regards, -- N. B. Day
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