Good 64 bit motherboard

[Anton Markov]

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Hi,

I am not sure about AMD or 64-bit processors, but I have never had any
problems with an Asus P4P800 board. If you look on their website, you
will see that they actually offer open source drivers for the Promise
RAID controller on the K8V (and other motherboards). (At least the
drivers I got were open source). Granted, the drivers are old, but at
least they are out there.

Also, I've had good experiences with VIA chipsets and Linux. I would do
a <http://www.google.com/linux> search for each individual component;
you will find more info that way. Just be sure to watch the dates on the
articles/posts you find; the new 2.6 kernel has _much better_ hardware
support than its predecessor.

My 2 cents.

Marc Lijour wrote:
| I have seen a nice offer in pc village:
| AMD 64Bit Athlon 3000+ CPU, Asus K8V Motherboard, PQI 1Gb Dual Channel
| DDR, 80Gb 7200RPM HDD, 1.44 Floppy, 16x/52x24x52x CDRW Combo, Radeon
| 9200SE 128Mb Video Card, 10/100 Network Card, 32Bit Sound Card, ATX
| Mid-Tower, 600w Speakers w/Subwoofer, Logitech Keyboard, Optical Mouse,
| 17" Samsung LCD
|
| Everything for 1329$.

That's a killer price (or am I so out-of-touch?)

|
| After I did some research on the internet, I found that many people are
| not happy with the board and with ASUS' attitude with respect to Linux
| users.


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