compatible athlon motherboard chipsets??

dan1e1 · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2002 Posts: 34

Hi all,

I suffer from the sickness of having to always be on the
"bleeding edge" of technology, so naturally I'm constantly upgrading
the HW in my PC. I tend to stick with AMD processors, so I'll
be purchasing an new Athlon motherboard soon.

It will either be Nvidia nForce2 based, or VIA KT400 based. Will
Gentoo install and recognize one (or both) of these chipsets???

Thanks for the advice,

-dan
dkuster@eclipse.net

roTor · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 55 Location: Atlanta, GA

Not sure about the KT400 chipset, but I've got an Abit KX7-333 and it works just fine. Even mananged to get lm_sensors to load.

rommel · Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 7:24 pm Post subject:

the newer via chipsets are not yet supported though via says they are working on it...i think i would go with a kt333 or even a kt266a since the performance differences seem o be rather small

dan1e1 · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2002 Posts: 34

Hmm, are you saying _VIA_ is working on adding linux support
for the KT400?? I thought that would be the distro makers and/or kernel
developers job

taskara · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 2:49 am Post subject:

I would prob go kt333 because kt400 support not complete yet, and NVIDIA keep their drivers closed source, which has caused a number of problems with the original nforce..
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alshain · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 5:39 am Post subject:

taskara · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 5:44 am Post subject:

how would you go installing gentoo tho if the 1.4rc1 cd doesn't recognise your ide devices ?

and do you have a link to the patch?

thanks!
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alshain · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 6:03 am Post subject:

taskara · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 6:13 am Post subject:

sounds like a plan.

I'm thinking of buying either the

asus A7V333 (with raid and audio)
or
asus A7V8X (with raid and audio)

I don't know which one to buy.

the A7V8X has 2 serial raid ports, but only 1 parallel ide port. I have no serial hard drives, and I want to use raid. So I assume I can't use raid 0 unless I put two hard drives on one cable.. which kinda defeats the purpose.

is there much performance difference between the kt400 and kt333 ide chipsets ?

so.. I'm confused... going to by a board in an hour, and don't know which one!
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20589

So far, noone (that I've read about) has been able to perform appreciably better with kt400 over kt333.
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taskara · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 6:25 am Post subject:

I think kt333 is the way to go, esp when I can't get serial hard drives yet..

maybe I should get an x-box and try to get linux on it.. ?

it's basically a pc at a quarter the cost

??

anyone know what you can do in an x-box exactly ?
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alshain · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 6:27 am Post subject:

taskara · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 6:46 am Post subject:

it has the two standard via ide ports (primary and secondary)

but the promise raid controller only has one parallel connector, the other two are serial.

which means I can't use raid unless I have two serial hard drives, something I can't get here until late november / early december.

either that or I can buy one parallel hard drive, and use it on it's own .. but what's the point of that, especially when I would have to later on go and buy two serial hard drives...

maybe it's better to get the a7v333 which has parallel raid, hardware sound, firewire and good linux support right now.

I actually want to use linux software raid, so maybe i"ll buy a seperate ultra 133 pci controller

ARRRGH... it's all too much..
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alshain · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 6:52 am Post subject:

taskara · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:10 am Post subject:

*sigh*
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dan1e1 · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2002 Posts: 34

Actually, a number of reviews I've read claim the KT400
boards perform better than the KT333 boards when using
DDR333 memory....

alshain · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:14 pm Post subject:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20589

taskara · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 10:43 pm Post subject:

I didn't get any.. I just couldn't decide...

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20589

I personally won't upgrade until I can buy a Hammer or dualHammer setup (depending on benefit). Said setup will also be s-ATA. In the meantime, I'm running a slot Athlon. Just not worth upgrading now IMO.

taskara · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 11:09 pm Post subject:

two excellent points

I love my AMD.. don't think I could really ever not buy one.. just in these hard, confusing times, sometimes one loses focus on reality

maybe I'll wait for hammer too.. but I might do an in-between upgrade, cause some friend will want to buy it from me later down the track

x-box project is looking like fun

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taskara · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 11:33 pm Post subject:

hehe that's true

good ol' Australia.. the law is on OUR side here !

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