On 12/15/02 20:24, Bob Raymond wrote:
On Monday 16 December 2002 04:16 am, Net Llama! wrote:
On 12/15/02 18:42, Bob Raymond wrote:
> On Monday 16 December 2002 02:31 am, Net Llama! wrote:
>> My experiences with Asus haven't been all that stellar.  They tend to
>> cut corners with specs which results in unreliable hardware when pushed
>> to its limits.  Also SiS makes hardware that is notiriously incompatible
>> with Linux.
>
> I really don't know of a good mb manufacturer to turn to- I have one
> complaint with my EPoX board, and that's with its shutdown/reboot
> abilities- I have to shut off the power supply when rebooting, otherwise
> the USB ports don't initialize.

I've had very good experiences with both Tyan & Intel for mobos.
Could you name a decent Athlon option from either one that supports stuff like PC3200 DDR, IDE RAID, a good 4 GB of RAM, and 6 USB 2.0 ports? I actually think it's just EPoX's 8K5A3+ that's a lemon board, though I did have the problem that my reset button didn't work with the 8KTA3Pro once I upgraded from Radeon VE to Radeon 8500
Those are some rather non-traditional requirements you have there. Generally speaking anything over 2GB is a server board, not a desktop board, and USB ports aren't something you find on server boards, at least not in high numbers. Then again, why do you need 6 onboard USB ports? USB muliplexors are relatively cheap. At any rate, here are the current Tyan offerings for AMD chips:
http://tyan.com/products/html/athlon.html

Needless to say, Intel doesn't make boards for AMD products.

--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com

8:25pm up 1 day, 3:36, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.14, 0.32

_______________________________________________
Linux-users mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Reply via email to