[CLUE-Tech] Motherboard Recommendations

[Adam Bultman]

Make sure you get a mobo that linux supports fully.  I just got a new MSI
motherboard, and linux doesn't support the IDE chipset well. It works, but
I have crappy transfer speeds, and transferring large amounts of data
makes it run terribly.


I've stayed away from the nForce chipset; I simply do not like it.  I
couldn't get a single thing to work with it in linux, but that was when it
was very new.  Support has perhaps grown since then.

ASUS has, and always will be, the best motherboard you can buy.  Abit,
MSI, and Gigabyte are nice, but hands down , asus...

On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Match Grun wrote:

> I have built one computer with had an IWill motherboard. Excellent. I later built three computers with MSI motherboards. One burned out and was replaced with an IWill. The IWill have never given problems. However, the MSI ones have had problems... maybe windoze???
>
> However, of all the motherboards I have used, I would recommend Tyan. In over two years it has never given any problems. This one is rock solid. It is a dual P-III 600 and is used everyday.
>
> Match
>
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:41:53 -0700
> Matt Gushee <mgushee at havenrock.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, Folks--
> >
> > Well, I thought I was helping somebody with a fairly routine Linux
> > installation, and I've ended up getting roped into helping him find a
> > new motherboard ... which is a bit beyond my expertise: I generally
> > don't pay a whole lot of attention to hardware, and I've never bought a
> > motherboard, period; I guess it's mainly because I have a working
> > Internet connection.
> >
> > Anyway, the priorities are reliability and support; performance is
> > definitely secondary. The gentleman thinks highly of ASUS products,
> > though he's not dead set on the brand. One product that I thought looked
> > good is the Asus A7V333 ... but I can't find any information on how well
> > it works with Linux. In fact, overall I'm finding that there are almost
> > no motherboards that 1) are currently available, 2) have been reviewed
> > by sources that I believe to be trustworthy, and 3) are reported to work
> > well with Linux. So I'm at a loss here.
> >
> > Anybody out there have experience with recent motherboards? I'd
> > appreciate your recommendations.
> >
> > --
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