> > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Andrew Ip wrote: > > > AFAIK, only P4DC6 is supported at this moment. I would like to > > ask what kind of P4 mainboards(645?! 650?!) are possibly supported? > > I have seen some of the P4 mainboards with DIP BIOS, so DOC shouldn't > > be a problem. How hard to port linuxbios to P4? Thanks. > > > I don't know but we're starting that too. Any favorite mainboards to use > out there? I'd rather buy high quality ones from here on out. > > ron > >
The only P4 boards I have used are Intel 850 based. If you can get support from Intel I would go for their own ones (they usually work as documented unlike many oem intel chipset boards). But I have to say I *hate* the way Intel change the boards every few months and try to differentiate differnt classes of user in stupid ways (I am writing this on a 423 pin P4). And you have to do Rambus init, which may be no fun (I dont know). You probably want lots of ram, which may rule out rambus, but because of Intels classification probably means you have to go for the 860 dual xeon. Which is very expensive. Otherwise why not go for the SiS DDR boards, which probably share some quirks with teh Athlon ones. Justin
