[mdlug] Well, shucks - motherboard/CPU advice needed

[David Relson]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:12:06 -0400
Dan Pritts wrote:

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> for motherboards, I like this board:
> 
> http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131174
> 
> which has basically everything on it you might ever want, including
> firewire, for $80, and is from a good manufacturer (says the guy
> with the flakey-under-linux pc chips mobo and the dead epox mobo
> from my previous round of purchases).  Note it has ATI graphics,
> not nvidia.
> 
> or this:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131172
> same, except no HDMI, for $70.

I'm running this board and it's working quite well.  When I got it, the
SB600's USB didn't play nice with Linux so I installed a PCI USB card.
 I don't know if the kernel has caught up to the chip, or not.

David