Frank, I think you're wise to hold off on this one for now as Derek and yourself have said.
Look what happened with the KT133A... I rushed out and bought a Soltek SL-75KAV with that chipset only to find that the VIA bug thing is a bit of a pain and Mandrake had to provide a workaround in a big hurry. Because of this in LM8.0 my hd ran much slower than it should have, others were not able to burn CDs (I didn't have that prob) and I think there were a few other problems. Although in LM8.1 my hd runs faster :-) I'm still a bit p*ssed off that I was hasty in buying the latest and the greatest. And I hate seeing the "Applying (??) workaround" message when booting. I've learned my lesson so I'm going to wait a wee while to see if the Nforce works with linux. Hope so. skinky On Sun, 04 Nov 2001 01:31, Franki wrote: | From what I can gather, Nforce will have linux drivers, (Nvidia have | pledged to this) | | but apparently they will be partially closed source like the detonator | drivers. | | The first question I have is will linux install well enough to let you | install the drivers? | | the second is that while I have no doubts that future bios revisions | and driver updates will | dramatically improve its performance, (who remembers the very first | detonators?) how long will it | be before they release the updates and will the whole kernel thing have | to be gone through each time..?? | | maybe I will go with the KT266A since there is currently so little in | it.. | | at least until more is known.. | | | rgds | | | Frank | | | | | | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek Jennings | Sent: Saturday, 3 November 2001 8:20 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [newbie] Nvidia Nforce mainboards are here... | | | Your choice is ultimately your own, and I agree it is a hot looking | chipset, but I would suggest a note of caution. | | Firstly the nForce is unique in that it has a single driver for the | entire chipset. This makes it revolutionary. Do we know it works with | Linux at all? and if it does will it work efficiently? | | Secondly NVIDIA notoriously will not release source code for their | drivers, so you will be dependent on an NVIDIA driver. When will it | come? will it work | with your distro? | | Thirdly the NVIDIA was truly awsome when it was announced, but since | then VIA | have brought out KT266A. Tests performed at Anandtech demonstrate that | NForce | does not have quite the performance lead we were hoping for | http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=1535&p=1 | | To summarise Anandtechs conclusions :- | The integrated video while better than other integrated videos still | hits performance hard, so an external video card is really necessary. | The dual bank memory architecture hits the bottleneck of the Athlons | 266MHz front side bus and offers little advantage at the moment. | | | I'm also very tempted by the NForce, but I think this is a good time | to not be first :) | | | On Saturday 03 November 2001 10:03, Franki wrote: | > Hi all, | > | > It looks like my main server will be getting another upgrade | > shortly,, | > | > to a Athlon XP 1800+ CPU with 512MB of DDR ram. | > | > I have been looking for a good motherboard for it.. | > | > I found this, which looks to be one of the fastest. | > | > http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/k7n420pro.htm | > | > its based on the Nvidia Nforce chipset, and that is supposed to be | > one of the most advanced amd boards available. | > | > Can anyone tell me if it works with linux? | > | > I would love to fit this puppy,, I don't care if the sound even | > works, and not necessarily the video either.. | > | > If they don't work out of the box I will just use my sb PCI and TNT2 | > board I have here until they do work. | > | > I just want to know if linux will run on the board using that | > chipset.. | > | > a system using that CPU, 512 of DDR and an Nforce board would really | > fly.. | > | > just need to know if it will get off the ground running linux. | > | > For anyone interested in the performance,, here is a benchmark of the | > msi board. | > | > http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=45000232 | > | > They say its the fastest socket A mainboard by at least 10%, | > depending on what its used for, some of the differences were alot | > higher. | > | > And thats with first generation drivers... Nvidia is well known for | > dramatic performance increases just by driver. | > | > I don't yet see any linux drivers for it on the nvidia site.. | > | > | > | > rgds | > | > Frank -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip)
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