I doubt you could go wrong with either board. I use the Asus A7V133 with onboard sound disabled (using an el cheapo ALS4000 PCI sound card which both Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 had no problem detecting!) The onboard Asus sound should give you no worries.
HTH, -nathan On Monday 25 March 2002 05:21 pm, you wrote: > On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: > > I got an answer & it was mostly for Asus motherboards > > > > Couldn't find out much else. Sorry > > Femme > > Hi Femme...you weren't referring to me with this, were you? If so, thanks! > But I'm American, not Brasilian (though thanks to a 5 year relationship > with a Portuguese girl, I do know when I'm being henpecked in portuguese > ;-)). > > At this point, I'm looking at two motherboards - the Soyo Dragon Plus, and > the Asus A7V266-E/AA. Both the same price, according to Pricewatch, about > 120 clams...at this point, I'm leaning toward the Asus...they are both on > AMDs XP recommended motherboards, but the Asus is listed as AMD Assured, > which gives it a slight edge. Anyone with a yea or nay for either board? > Annoyingly, both have integrated sound. I know, I know...I can turn it off > in the BIOS...but I just can't help but feel that something physically > attatched to the board could somehow make my life more difficult than it > needs to be.
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