Will my new hardware work?

[fourhead]

I'm planning to buy a new computer in the next weeks. It will be an Athlon 64, so I want to go 64bit as much as possible. I want to buy a NForce4 board (Asus or MSI) so I'll also have a PCIe graphics card. The harddrives and probably also the DVD burner will be S-ATA. My short question: Will this work with Gentoo? I just emerged the new 2.6.11 kernel and saw that it is the first kernel with PCIe support, so I'm a little afraid that it is too experimental to work correctly. And what about a S-ATA DVD burner? From what I've read S-ATA seems to work well for harddrives, but can I burn DVDs with that? And last but not least, what about 64bit in general and the NX bit and the Cool'n'Quiet feature that the new Athlons offer? Does somebody want to share his/her experiences?

Tom

[lbrtuk]

Support for SATA ATAPI devices (the dvd burner) is new and I think still requires uncommenting experimental options in the kernel. And I've heard it's not really that stable yet. But things will probably improve very fast.

The NX bit is an intrinsic part of the amd64 architecture so should afaik be enabled automatically on an amd64 system. Cool 'n quiet reportedly works just like on any laptop.

[fourhead]

Hi, thanks for your answer. I've read that the NX bit also needs to be supported by the OS, WinXP for example recently had a bug that made the software part of this NX thing vulnerable. For the SATA DVD burner, I think I'll better stick with my IDE one then, and get a SATA one later (or perhaps even BluRay - who knows ) Do you kow anything about PCIe support and if the NVidia drivers support AMD4 and/or PCIe?

Tom

[fbicknel]

Any update on the SATA kernel issue?

Would a BD burner work?
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[snIP3r]