-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 May 2002 6:18 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> How good are the integrated devices on these boards, compared to the > ones you can buy as add-in PCI cards? Tom's reviews never seem to > give them much attention. How do they perform? Do they tax the CPU > any more than a standalone card would? I am interested in getting a > board with integrated sound and ethernet. I would like the board to > have at least 4 IDE interfaces (not channels) so I can give an entire > interface to each of my devices. How well do the features of these > boards work in Linux? As mentioned somewhere else, my borrowed machine has an Intel 815E-based motherboard with integrated sound, video and Ethernet. 8.2 installed no problem and the inteegrated parts were identified as: Ethernet: 3Com Corporation 3C905-TX Sound: Intel Corp 820 (Camino 2) Chipset AC97 Audio Controller Video: Intel Corp 815 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] There is no obvious extra CPU load and the first two work fine; the third is a problem, as there are artifacts and slight breaking-up when really driving things. However, there's an AGP 2x slot supplied and I'll be using it soon :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE84hwnCv59vFiSU4YRAggKAJ9KCSNZMRkeNP41s8FsrQD9FxCYdgCgyb1a 38JrsuJSK0/a7lAap+36TzU= =7Khw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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