Asking for some motherboard advice...

Vgui · 05-27-2006, 03:15 PM

Thinking of buying:

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?m...3&l2=15&l3=210

My main concern is the integrated Nvidia chipset. I didn't find this motherboard on the HCL list here at LQ, so if anyone has tried it or had problems let me know so I can be better informed. Thanks.

Brian1 · 05-27-2006, 04:16 PM

Nvidia is well supported using the nvidia drivers. Motherboard looks pretty good to me. Only issue I see is if you use sata drives. May be a pain to install depending on distro of your choice. That would be the only thing to study up on. I would see if the chipset of the sata controller is supported. If it is it can be done but not as a simply install but again that depends on distro dicission.

Brian1

fair_is_fair · 05-27-2006, 04:45 PM

Hardware changes so rapidly. I check here for motherboard rankings and reviews when I'm shopping.

www.motherboards.org

slantoflight · 05-27-2006, 04:56 PM

The nvidia chipset is well supported and most distro's(Fedora,Suse) seem to automatically install to sata drives or even bios-configured raids using this chipset. Nvidia is about as well-reputed as they come. And as far as chipsets go, its Linux support is probably only second to VIA.

http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q4...i/index.x?pg=1

I have this motherboard here and it works great. You can overclock an amd +3000 nearly a ghz with the stock fan.

Vgui · 05-27-2006, 05:12 PM

Hey all,
First off, I wasn't planning on using the SATA connection, just IDE for me, so that shouldn't be a problem. I didn't know that the integrated video is just like a normal Nvidia card (which my desktop has, and yes the support is great). If I can just drop in the normal drivers, that'll be great.
I'll read up some more reviews (thanks for the link). Thanks all.