sirra462

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Installed SuSE 9 beautifully, the only problem was with the Nvidia onboard LAN not being recognized, so I lowered the score for that. Everything else is recognized as should be.

ashayh

Rock stable with 2.6.1 kernel.

Onboard sound works nicely with ALSA.

No problems with onboard LAN . I havent used the onboard Lan a lot though, I have a Realtek RTL8169 Gigabit card which also works with the 2.6.1 kernel with no problems whatsoever.

I'm using 2x256MB corsair Ram, a Pixelview Nvidia 5200 128MB, and a 160GB Maxtor 6Y160P0.

This computer is on for days at a stretch. I havent had any problem since I bought it in december.

This board is quite feature full and also has decent overclocking options.

e1000

the Ethernet works great with the Nvidia binary drivers, it works equally well with the opensource drivers from here, these are applied via a kernel patch.

the onboard sound is not beautifull, but it works works beautifully with the alsa driver 'snd-intel8x0'.

lastly, there is no onboard video (thankfully), so your going to have to force your selfe to go ahead and buy a nice AGP card, Oh the agony!!

I give it an 9 out of 10 only because the ethernet will not work on a vanilla kernel.

pilot1

Everything works perfectly with both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.
Great board, and great price.