Hello,
after I posted the message "Best/energy efficient CPU/Chipset/Motherboard for 6e4bit Fedora"
(https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-January/msg00164.html)
I spoke with a friend which only runs Windows, but spends lots of times testing PC hardware and reading reviews, benchmarks and so on.
He told me if he had to build a box with the specs I have he'd use an nVidia nForce4 motherboard: starting from there, I found these two boards:
ASUS A8N-VM CSM (www.dealtime.com/xPF-AMD_Motherboard_nForce430_Athlon_64FX_X2_Max_4GB_DDR_PCIEX16_PCIEX_2PCI_GBE_1394_SATA_RAID_Audio)
and GYGABYTE GA-K8N51PVMT-9
However, I also found some Asus horror stories when used with Linux:
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lofiversion/index.php/t25122.html http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=388624
since the Gygabyte one has the same chipset I assume it would have very similar or identical problems. My questions are:
* has anybody managed to use one of those cards with Fedora? * will there be anything in FC5 to improve the situation? * if that chipset isn't usable under Linux, what are the chipsets and microatx motherboards more similar to the two above, but perfectly supported under Linux?
Thanks again,
Webber
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dondi_2006