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05-17-2005
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$91.00
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8.3
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Description:
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Supported CPU: Socket A AMD AthlonXP/Athlon/Duron Processors
Chipset: VIA KT600 + VT8237
FSB: 400/333/266/200MHz
RAM: 3x DIMM for DDR400/333/266 Max 3GB
IDE: 2x UltraDMA 133 up to 4 Devices
Slots: 1x AGP 8X/4X, 5x PCI(v 2.2)
Ports: 2xPS2,2xCOM,1xLPT,1xLAN,8xUSB2.0(Rear 4),Audio Ports
Onboard Audio: Realtek ALC655 6-Channel AC97 Codec
Onboard LAN: Realtek 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet
Onboard SATA/RAID: VT8237, 2 x Serial ATA, SATA RAID, RAID 0/1
Onboard 1394: VIA VT6306, 3x IEEE1394 Ports (Internal)
Form Factor: ATX
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Keywords:
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GIGABYTE KT600 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU
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Chipset:
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VIA KT600 + VT8237
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Connection Type:
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ATX
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03-27-2004, 03:20 PM
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Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: Debian, Ubuntu, Mer
Posts: 3
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.4
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Knoppix (KnoppMyth) / Debian
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Sound is OK - a bit crackley
SATA works fine (if you only have SATA disks you'll need to bootstrap a kernel that recognises SATA somehow - I used a temporary PATA boot disk)
LAN is good works well with ALSA
Not used firewire
Not used USB but they detect OK
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04-01-2004, 09:53 PM
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Registered: Mar 2004
Distribution: Lunar-Linux
Posts: 3
Rep: 
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $82.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.5-rc3-mm3-beta
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Lunar-Linux
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Have had no issues what so ever! AGP is running at a blazing 8x (with an nvidia agp card). I disabled the onboard sound as I have a Audigy. Great board, the BIOS is a little weak (feature lacking), but over all, stable, fast, and recommended. I do not have a SATA drive so havn't been able to test that yet, assuming it works (based on the post previous to mine).
512k of Crucial pc3200 (cas 3)
AMD 3000+ barton
running at 400Mhz FSB
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07-01-2004, 10:02 AM
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Registered: May 2003
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 8
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.7
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Debian sid/unstable
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This is a good board, but it does have its problems.
1. The BIOS doesn't initialize/reset USB properly if the system (Linux) isn't shutdown properly, like with a crash or power failure. This is a problem since I have a USB keyboard (and mouse). The USB keyboard doesn't work with the BIOS setup or with GRUB. I have to have a PS/2 keyboard sitting on top of the case for these situations. Once Linux loads though, everything is ok. And if I then shutdown properly then the keyboard will work with the BIOS and GRUB.
2. The board doesn't seem to turn off completely when it's turned off. I have a USB keydrive on an extension cable and its light stays on even when the system is shutdown. This is probably to enable the various power-on features (from KB, mouse, LAN, modem...).
3. Most of the time the system doesn't even get to POST when turned on. The screen stays off (in power-save mode) and the floppy doesn't seek. I have to remove the power cable from the PSU, count to ten, and plug it back in. Possibly related to #2.
Other than that, it seems to be a good board. My Radeon 9200 (AGPx4) works well. I don't know about SATA, but the driver for it loads ok too. All the USB ports (six with the supplied expansion bracket) seem to work as well. The on-board ethernet is supported by the 8139too driver. The board supports APIC so I get more than the old 16 interrupts.
BTW, hitting Ctrl-F1 in the BIOS setup displays "advanced" settings, for when you know what you're doing.
Update: I recently had to use the on-board software when I swapped out my SB Live to another machine for a quick experiment. IT SUCKS! Ugh. It totally lacked any high-end response. It was very muddy and sounded like the speakers were inside the wall.
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05-17-2005, 03:45 PM
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Registered: Mar 2005
Distribution: Slackware 10.1, Ubuntu 5.04
Posts: 109
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $100.00 | Rating: 4
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.xx
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Distribution:
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Slackware 9.1, Ubuntu Hoary, Fedora Core 1
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It works problem free, except the LAN which refuses to work at all.
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