Get a VIA based socket 754 motherboard. For reasons no longer clear to me, I thought a SiS 760 based Gigabyte K8S760M looked good. While it is a nice motherboard, Linux has poor support for SiS interrupt handling. My system log was overflowing with the following: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) I turned off APIC and ACPI support, and the messages went away. My great ignorance keeps me from knowing whether turning off APIC and ACPI support was a good idea, but it stopped the error messages. Even though everything works, I wonder whether it ought to perform with more zip.
I think the MSI K8MM-ILSR looks nifty, but I have not tried it. It uses the VIA K8M800 chipset. There are many K8M800 based boards to choose from. SiS and VIA are the two main chipset choices, and I advocate staying away from SiS. http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=16242&highlight=sis also points to problems with a SiS based board. Michael
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