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09-05-2003, 01:50 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Frankfurt
Distribution: mostly SuSE 8.1 with X 4.3.0
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Which mainboard for AMD?
It's time again, I have to buy a new mainboard.
Since I'm using Linux, not only price and performance are relevant, so:
Which is the best mainboard with socket 7 (Athlon) with KT600 or nforce2 chipset in combination with X11 on Linux?
Which one comes with full support (drivers for LAN, sound, etc.) for Linux (since I want to support the companies, which support Linux)?
I've seen various SATA/RAID-threads; is there actually a SATA which works out of the box with Linux?
Any Good?
Bodo 
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09-05-2003, 02:00 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: VA
Distribution: Slack 10.1
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Isn't socket 7 for the older Pentiums?
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09-05-2003, 02:21 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Distribution: Slackware
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Quote:
Originally posted by aaa
Isn't socket 7 for the older Pentiums?
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Socket 7 is for Intel Pentium MMX chips and AMD K6 chips
AMD Athilon and Duron chips use the Socket A format
As for motherboards, I have been looking at the Abit NF7-S and Asus A7N8X-Delux. As for compatability, I'm not 100% sure, but they look like good boards. They are both nForce chipset boards.
Last edited by Modorf; 09-05-2003 at 02:23 PM.
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09-05-2003, 03:04 PM
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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Thiensville, WI, USA
Distribution: RedHat Linux 9
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Second question KT600?? The last time I checked the latest chipset out by via is the KT400a, no?
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09-05-2003, 06:53 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Frankfurt
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ooops
Quote:
Originally posted by aaa
Isn't socket 7 for the older Pentiums?
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 Yes, you're right; small error occured there. Of course, I mean the current Athlons 
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09-05-2003, 08:52 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Mississippi USA
Distribution: Gentoo
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I have this
Check my sig below. I have not had any problems except that the kernal or something doesn't support agpgart. Can't get a stable system when using NVIDIA drivers. Other than that it has ethernet, sound, UDMA133 hardware monitor for CPU etc and other stuff.
I don't recommend the SATA just yet. I have seen people who have had problems with it. Some can't get it to see the drives to install on to begin with. Might want to wait a bit. Hopefully next release for some. Mandrake 9.2????
Hope this helps. It is best to get advise on hardware before you buy. Learn from someboby else's mistake type of thing.

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09-06-2003, 06:29 AM
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Registered: Feb 2002
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The only problem I found with a nforce chipset was the sound.It works but the support from nvidia only exists for the soundstorm chipset.
BTW - dalek how is your FX5200 doing - my FX5600 (also chaintec) is about to die.Well it's been 3 month.I suppose that's ok.
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09-06-2003, 09:44 AM
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: ky
Distribution: gentoo
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sata works well on the asus a7n8x dx.
This mostly for Bodo
sata works well on the asus a7n8x dx.
I got gentoo to run well on it but i had to use the nvida lan driver.
I am running 2.6.0test4.
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09-06-2003, 11:06 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Finland
Distribution: Fedora 14, Ubuntu 10.4 LTS
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Mainboard for AMD
As to the mainboard question, I haven't had any trouble with my Asus A7N8X-X w/AMD Athlon XP+2400 Thoroughbred.
The only thing: Red Hat 9.0 setup didn't detect the onboard ethernet automatically, though Control Center displays it correctly.
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09-06-2003, 01:15 PM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Mississippi USA
Distribution: Gentoo
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Well, not really sure
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09-07-2003, 12:57 PM
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: ky
Distribution: gentoo
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y mandrake?
Mandrake is less stable than windows if y want an easy disteo try Suse.
Debian Slackwaer or Gentoo will teah y how linux realy works
Last edited by enyawix; 09-07-2003 at 12:59 PM.
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