Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9-r6
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Distribution:
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gentoo
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Can't remember what I paid, it was the cheapest price by far on the net from microdirect.co.uk
I agree with the "Description". It gets 9/10 instead of 10/10 because the on-board graphics don't work if you set the FSB to 200MHz. Before I did that, I could crank it as far as about 183MHz and it was fine. The graphics, though only GeForce 4MX compatible, were the best on-board graphics I had ever experienced. By adding a cheap nvidia card (FX5200), I have been able to crank it up to 200MHz, disguising my Athlon XP2500+ as a 3200+.
The only criticism from a Linux point of view is that the optional internal WLAN is Prism3_USB, which is a pain.
The sound, video, USB1.1, USB2.0, IEEE1394, "just works" with very little tweaking. A friendly distro like Mandrake just detects everything correctly, and in Gentoo it's a straightforward to compile the kernel as it ever gets.
There is another criticism -- Framebuffer mode is difficult and running X causes text screens to crash. Hardly a problem in my book, as pretty boot-up screens, while nice, are not a priority.
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