wondering has anyone had any experience with nvidia mcp55pxe chipset? My experience with nvidia and linux has been with mostly with fedora and vicariously with suse. fedora hasn't ever included the nvidia drivers. You've always had to go to the nvidia site and download them and install them, cause the default fedora drivers although they work just pretty much suck. An office mate had installed suse 10.3 and had a horrendous time with the nforce chips, on board lan didn't work without installing nvidia's drivers.

My new systemn which I plan to put ubuntu on has the nvidia mcp55pxe chipset, and also has SLI support which I don't plan to use, I will use a single nvidia ge force 6600 video card. Have found plenty of older posts complaining that the geforce 6600 isn't recognized by ubuntu. Also have seen some mentioning that ubuntu had nvidia graphics drivers included, can anyone confirm? how about nvidia mcp55pxe chipset? Any one have anything good to say? more importantly, anyone have any horror stories?

Other than asking for comments on that card (which would really be better suited in the Hardware forum, by the way), I am not sure what the actual question is here.

Just install the Nvidia drivers. They are not included in most distributions because they are not open source, but that doesn't mean you can't use them. It is easily one of the best manufacturer-supplied Linux drivers currently available, and you will likely have no problems with it, especially on a more modern card (and since you don't care about SLI anyway).

I have moved this to the Hardware forum - and MS3FGX is correct, go to Nvidia's site and read up on installation. And then install. For Ubuntu there are also how tos and questions on the Ubuntu forums about installing Nvidia cards.