On Sunday 20 November 2005 09:26, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > On Sunday 20 November 2005 5:43 am, Jules Bean wrote: > > Mike Robinson wrote: > > >> I'm personally drooling over the Abit IC7-G. Firewire, USB 2.0, 4 PCI > > >> slots, > > >> an AGP slot, Gigabit, and optical 6.1 audio in-out, and quad pumped > > >> dual channel DDR all built-in. I've seen 'em for about $120. > > > > > > That might be the one for me. Please get me a drool bucket. > > > > I avoided the Abit AV8 because a bit of research revealed it uses > > proprietary power management - uGuru instead of plain old ACPI - and > > they haven't released specs. Somebody has just recently got some limited > > linux support for it by reverse engineering, but I decided to try to > > find a board where the manufacturers were being a little more friendly. > > Not to mention the fact that it's a VIA chipset. I've avoided VIA like > the plague since my first (and last) VIA motherboard in 1999. It was an > AOpen AX63Pro, and it was nothing but trouble until the day it died a > horrible, premature death due to power regulator failure (taking the > CPU with it) in 2001.
and they're firewire chips are the same, crud. -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
