On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:13:34PM -0700, Bryan Murdock wrote: > Hey folks, > > There's gotta be someone on this list who is the type of geek that is > always up-to-date on the latest north bridges, south bridges, BIOSes, > motherboards, RAM, etc. I'm looking at getting a new barebones system > and I'm wondering what the latest scoop on all the above is. Last time > I got up to speed on this ASUS, and ABIT were the must-have motherboard > brands, with some chipset that I can't remember, and you totally had to > avoid some other new intel chipset, and the DDR vs. Rambus debate was > just flaring up. What's the scoop today? In particular, I'm seeing > some bargain boards with some VIA chipsets and some Asus motherboad with > the SiS 648 on the north bridge and SiS 963L on the South Bridge. Oh, > and what's up with these half-megawatt power supplies? Do I need to > update my circuit breakers before I bring one of these monsters home? >
If by barebones you are referring to the nice tiny boxes, I've got one. It's a shuttle (http://us.shuttle.com),and I'm very pleased with it. They make a good, and pretty box. Motherboard is an nvidia, built in Geforce 4 MX, nforce 2 based chipset. So if you're using the 2.4 kernel you'll have to deal with the proprietary drivers. 2.6 has a hacked up module (forcedeath) for the chipset, but I haven't tried it yet. As for the half-megawatt power supply, you won't fit one in this box.. Hope that helps -- Scott Paul Robertson http://students.cs.byu.edu/~spr/ GnuPG FingerPrint: 09ab 64b5 edc0 903e 93ce edb9 3bcc f8fb dc5d 7601
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