Motherboard recommendation?

[Kerry Panchoo]

Linux support for the new 3Com Lan chipsets is pretty poor. We recently 
got an Asus P4R800-VM and prior to that a P4C800 Deluxe. The P4R800's 
lan simply did not work- We have not found a solution to it. The P4C800 
deluxe was pretty bad also- you were able to browse some websites and 
not others- for example you could not go to google.com etc-- pretty bizzare.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?threadid=70621

I dont know if they've resolved the problem, i still have the P4C800, 
but i added a network card to solve that problem. I've since sold the 
P4R800 since my application requires everything onboard. I hate to say 
it- but for linux the new Asus boards suck.

Kerry

William Park wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 09:04:19PM -0500, Kerry Panchoo wrote:
> 
>>Are you looking for everything on-board?
> 
> 
> I'm leaning towards all-in-one, because of its simplicity and because I
> need to build many boxes.
> 
> 
>>I've tested a few Intel & MSI boards with onboard video, audio and lan 
>>that worked really well. I would almost always stay away from extremely 
>>new chipsets- also recommend you staw away from shuttle boards- the die 
>>extremely fast- of the 4 shuttle boards i've bought in the past year, 
>>not a single one is working.
> 
> 
> I saw them at stores.  My concern was heat dissipation... there isn't
> much room for fan/heatsink and air flow inside the case.
> 
> 
>>I've had some issues with Asus boards, but that was due to the new
>>onboard 3Com LAN- look out for that when you buying boards.
> 
> 
> What's wrong with it?
> 



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