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blixel
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| Quote: | | Depending on your budget I would recommend an nforce2 based board. |
Hmm... did you not read my original post? I have an nForce2 based board and that was the reason for the post. My board is extremely problematic. And all my searching keeps pointing back to the nForce2 chipset as being the culprit. Or maybe it's just that ASUS did a really crappy job of implementing the nForce2 chipset on this particular motherboard. Or maybe it's my combination of hardware combined with the nForce2 chipset. But whatever the case, I don't think getting another board with the nForce2 chipset is going to solve anything. |
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dcrook
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Don't you think that you might be a bit quick to blame the nforce2 chipset for your problems when it might just be your particular motherboard, and i don't mean the brand and model. Your board might just be a lemon. Your powersupply or ram are much more likely candidates to be the cause of sporatic trouble.
I have an nforce2 based motherboard by Albatron and its been running like a rock for almost a year now and I have had the thing slightly overclocked since I put it together. Its a dual-boot box for gentoo and windows XP and its on all day, almost everyday. The 2.6 kernel works great with the nforce2 and has drivers that work with the onboard ethernet and sound.
The main drawback to the nforce2 is that it requires a proprietary driver from nvidia to use the audio to its fullest extent and that driver is still buggy. Without this driver the soundstorm encoder is just taking up space. But since this feature doesn't exist with any other chipset anyways its not like you are going to get a better alternative.
Both the nforce2 and via KT600 chipsets are mature solutions and either can be used to make great motherboards for the athlon xp processor. Its also possible to make a crap motherboard based on either one. |
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blixel
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| dcrook wrote: | | Don't you think that you might be a bit quick to blame the nforce2 chipset for your problems when it might just be your particular motherboard, and i don't mean the brand and model. Your board might just be a lemon. |
I have already pointed out that possibility. |
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squeegy
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| blixel wrote: | | feld wrote: | I say also GO FOR EPOX! I have had a board of theirs for a while and it RULES!
Epox 8RDA3+ Socket A Nforce2 Ultra Mobo = I have NO problems at all with this board. |
Hmmm... well - nForce2 is not an option. I suppose it's possible that it's just the asus+nforce2 combo and that epox+nforce2 would be OK, or maybe it's some strange combination of hardware I have - but whatever the case, I'm not willing to gamble on another nForce2 board.
Actually I already ordered the ASUS A7V880 anyway - so it's kind of a done deal. |
My ASUS A7N8X nforce2 motherboard works fine with linux, aside from the onboard sound not having hardware mixing, but I hear you can get it working with dmix assuming you're using ALSA. |
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KingPunk
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just for redundancy, i vote VIA KT600.
i have never had a problem with it, its great.
err, i take that back. every problem or issue i've run into, was self inflicted.
linkage: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-128-197&depa=1
thats my board, its stable as a rock. i love it.
but i am going 64bit soon. and im holding out for VIA's KT900-based boards,
as it includes PCI-X for AMD mmmm 
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lots
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Do you mean PCI Express?
PCI-X != PCIe
You've been able to buy boards with PCI-X on them for quite some time...
I dont trust gigabyte as a brand. I was shipped a KT600 based Gigabyte with a bad bios, took a flash to get the thing to work (by work i mean install an OS), and it still has problems. Random data corruption for example. In my opinion, the board should work when i take it out of the box
This may have been just my experience, but I found many many problems all over the web about people having the exact same problem.
I'd stick to Asus MSI or Epox. Soltek isnt bad either. |
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