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Last Review by SpeedFreak03 - posted: 07-26-2004 09:31 PM [ Post a Review ] 


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 In the past few weeks, I have installed many different distributions on my computer to see which one I liked the best, and this card was detected automatically out-of-the-box on EVERY single distribution I tried! It works fine, it's fast, and I haven't had any reliability problems with it at all. Not to mention it's a very low-profile card, hardly takes up any space in my case, so I can put it close to my video card with no problem. Here are all the distributions I've tried (so the card works with all of these): Redhat 9 Fedora Core 1 and 2 Mandrake 9.1 Knoppix 3.2 (even with HD install) Slackware 9.0 So if you need a cheap 10/100 ethernet card, go for this one!

Rating: 10
Product Details: "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C (rev 10)" by Astro - posted: 01-23-2004 - Rating: ********* 9.42

Last Review by SpeedFreak03 - posted: 07-19-2004 02:21 PM [ Post a Review ] 


Views: 39062

 This was pretty easy to set up as far as hardware detection goes. The onboard sound (AC97 SoundMAX, uses the i810_audio and ac97_codec modules) was automatically detected and works out of the box (but the coaxial digital out does not). The onboard gigabit LAN (3Com 3C940) sort-of works. It uses the "SysKonnect 98xx Gigabit" driver (as configured in redhat-config-network), aka the sk98lin module. The first time I installed linux I tried using the 3c2000 driver from ASUS's website, and after much tweaking it worked, but not well (like if i looked at it the wrong way it would become inactive). So I did a little research, and you can use the SysKonnect 98xx driver with no problem, so I "wiped out" all the 3com module/driver stuff and started clean with redhat-config-network and set it up using the "SysKonnect 98xx Gigabit" driver. Works great! Well I don't have any firewire devices, but the controller is detected, so I can only assume it works. All 8 USB ports (4 on the mobo, then 4 ports for front USB) work fine. The parallel port also works (yes, I'm still using a parallel port printer, but it's laser and works great with Linux), and I assume the serial port works as well. All 4 IDE channels are detected, but I don't have anything set up in raid. I don't know about the SATA channels either. So in conclusion, this board works great with linux. Once I figured out the network thing (I still don't know why Anaconda didn't auto-detect it during setup) it has been working great. Now for my non-linux related review of the board. For the first month or so I had my P4 2.6C overclocked to 3.12GHz just fine (the CPU was the limiting factor), for O/C'ing, this board is excellent. Screw up your settings? No more shorting pins to clear the BIOS, just reboot! The Memory enhancement mode works well, except it is disabled if your FSB speed is over 200MHz (really 800MHz). Gigabit LAN, and all the onboard ports are excellent. For the $120 I paid back in November '03 for this board, I couldn't be more happier.

Rating: 9
Product Details: "P4P800 Deluxe" by mbegovic - posted: 03-29-2004 - Rating: ******** 7.75



  



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