I am about to put together a new Linux system with a removable SATA cage for demo'ing various systems. I have not used any mATX boards, or and AMD 64bit processors, so wanted to check if anyone Had any experiences with any decent mATX boards and Dual Core S939 64 bit Athlons?
1: Will the SATA-II support on any board work with my existing SATA-I based drive cage? I believe they are backwards compatible (of course They will run at SATA-I speeds). 2: I will be running/installing 32bit distros, so are their any issues To be aware of running on any of the DC 64 bit AMD's 3: Any particular board/cpu combo which has shown great success? Meaning right out of the box support on most distros? 4: Will Dual Core AMD's work on all s939 boards? I am trying to avoid having to futz with too many after-install driver issues so would prefer something that most distros would support, on install. The distros I would be running would Include: Distos: CentOS RHES 4 Suse 10.1 Fedora Core 5 This is what I am looking at so far: MB's: ASUS A8N-VM/CSM mATX S939 MSI K8NGM2-L mATX S939 ASRock 939NF4G-SATA2 mATX S939 CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Dual Core Processor S939 Manchester 2GHZ 512KBX2 90NM Retail Box __________________________ Johnny Stork Open Enterprise Solutions _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
