Good 64 bit motherboard

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 11:40:02PM -0600, Adil Kodian wrote:
> make sure you buy a SATA controller that is supported by your version
> of linux. I have  a tyan thunder k8w with a sil3114 card, and ive
> never gotten the hardware RAID to work properly in a manner that both
> windows and linux can use any partition on the RAID'ed hard drives
> (Raid0)
> 
> but working with my desktop (2x248 opteron, 1Gig RAM, 120Gx3 SATA hdd)
> with windows2k (32bit) ive found it to be blazingly fast - P4s and
> Xeons dont even come close! I can run a heavy simulation ad 70%cpu),
> and continuously keep playing my games without a skip or freeze !
> (NVidia GeForce FX 128Mb agp card)
> 
> With linux in the native 64 bit mode it runs unbelievably fast - yep i
> also experienced the kernel compiling like magic.  Mandrake, SuSE, FC2
> all have AMD64 versions, although FC2 comes with support for almost
> every new device - and so may be important to some.

Well my wife got a laptop yesterday (she wanted a laptop, and it was
$400 off, so seemed like a good idea), which I think she will probably
install Linux on this weekend (after reinstalling Windows in a more
clean state than it comes, and with more than one partition).  It will
be interesting to see how Linux runs in 64bit mode on it.  I am sure the
wireless network will be a pain, but the rest seems supported.

Lennart Sorensen
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