It would be nice to be able to replace the board without having to reinstall
the OS. The mainboard (Tyan) was purposely chosen to not having any onboard
components. The previous install has video and sound and nic. Time is a
hot commodity right now (fixing and working on others workstations.) Do you
recommendations still apply with this in mind?
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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net]On Behalf Of Steve
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:27 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] mainbaord recommendations
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 10:46 pm, you wrote:
> The motherboard on a Suse box is toast. Recommendations on a replacement?
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I'm running MSI with Athlon for a few generations and am very happy.
On this one box I upgraded from a m/b with 1.3G CPU and 266 bus and VIA
chipset to another MSI with the VIA chipset KT600. What's good about it is
that it will run the old CPU and RAM until I spend more money on it and go
with 3+G and 400 MHz bus. It's not the top of line but quite nice for the
few
$$ it costs.
The choices seem to be with either VIA or nVidia chipset. The latter seems
very popular these days.
A point with the 8237 chipset is that it's only supported from someplace
like
2.4.22. This means no DMA for your harddrive on lower version kernel. I run
a
2.4.23 kernel and it works fine supporting UDMA 133/100/66/33 drives. It
also
has both RAID and SATA support. 8 port USB 2.0.
The onboard NIC (Broadcom) supports 10/100/1000 but I don't know if there's
Linux support as I prefer 3Com.
As usual I also use my own soundcard and not the onboard. But it does do 6
channel audio.
It also does overclocking nicely with 1MHz steps from 100 to 280 MHz. I got
an
1800 running as a 2000 right now. It's running nice and cool.
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