On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Miguel A Paraz wrote:
> I was wrong. I search on Froogle dug up cheap SATA mobo's.
> Now to check which are available here, and their reviews...
>
hi migs,
on the AMD Athlon platform with the nForce2 board chipset,
you have:
Asus A7N8X Deluxe (with 2 SATA ports) -- P8,500
MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR (with 2 SATA Ports) -- P7,000
Epox 8RDA3+ (with 2 SATA ports) -- P6,500
Abit NF7-S (with 2 SATA ports and an optional adapter which they call
a Serillel Adapter with which you can plug a PATA disk into a
SATA port) -- P6,500 (need to order from
www.elektroniksdepot.com)
(aside from SATA, they all have your standard built-in hardware for 4 USB
2.0 ports, 2 Firewire ports, Fast-Ethernet ports (the Epox and Asus have
two LAN ports ideal for routers), 6-channel sound set (Asus and Abit
have something called SoundStorm which should be better than your
Creative Labs Audigy1.)
usually, ppl getting a board with SATA use 2 Western Digital Raptors with
8MB cache each in RAID 0 or 1 configuration. the SATA chipset common
among these boards is the Silicon Image SiL3112A/SiL3114 chipset.
should be working under linux 2.4.x.
experimental still in 2.6
these were my notes, when i shopped one late last year.
goodluck,
pong
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