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Intel D945PSNLK
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100% of reviewers $140.00 7.0



Description: It's a Pentium Socket LGA775 motherboard from Intel. It has on-board sound (good) and an on-board Gigabit Ethernet controller (good)
but no on-board video (also good, as most such things are junk anyway). I am running it with a dual core Pentium (Pentium D 820+). The machine is watercooled (see below). I have both FerodaCore 4 (for x86_64 arch) and Ubuntu (Breezy Badger 5.10) running on it. The video card is from the last century (literally).

The standard installation went well, the system recognized both the Ethernet card and the audio chipset (Intel High-Definition Audio (HDA) based on StacTel 9221). I get good stereo sound (do not know how to turn on the surrond sound or whether ALSA supports it for this chipset). There were a couple of differences for the two distributions, however: under Ubuntu, the audio just worked. For Fedora, I had to get the latest kernel (2.6.15.1) and the latest ALSA rpm (for version 1.0.10). After I installed the upgrades, the sound worked fine (under Ubuntu I still can hear some crackle when I play CDs but not when I play files from the harddrive).

I heard a lot of complaints about Pentium D getting hot, so I decided to watercool this machine using a waterblock from Zalman, an aquarium pump (a ~300 lpg Eheim 1048), and a bucket of water: no fancy radiator setup but adding a transmission oil cooler from Autozone would probably make it cooler. I do not overclock (this machine is for work mainly) so I cannot vouch for this setup for cycle junkies but it is quiet (I can only hear the harddrive and it is getting on my nerves already) as it has no fans whatsoever.

http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd..._available.htm
Keywords: Pentium D 820+ HDA StacTel 9221 Intel 945P chipset
/sbin/lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Memory Controller Hub
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Graphics Port
00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controllers cc=IDE (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] (rev a2)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 108b (rev 03)
05:03.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
05:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
Chipset: Intel® 945P


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Old 11-19-2006, 10:01 PM   #1
cookevillain
 
Registered: Dec 2005
Posts: 7

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $140.00 | Rating: 7

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.17.13
Distribution: Fedora 5



Everything still works fine. After reflashing the BIOS all my hardware is finally supported, the newest kernel helped as well (I have had trouble with a CF-to-SATA card from Addonics at first). The built-in audio seems to be prety sensitive to the wire placement and the various internal noises the machine produces---not ideal but the sound is Ok for watching movies and such.
 




  



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