On Wednesday May 28 2003 01:10 pm, John Drouhard wrote:OK Tom, so you favour Via and AMD, but if money is not in itself a particular problem, though everything has to be reasonably equal, and relative, what would be the best combination of mobo cpu and video card for good graphics, speed and efficiency of FSB etc in Linux, and why ?
Actually, I didn't really want an nforce2 motherboard. I just
went for this one because it had AGP 8x and got high reviews.
Could anyone point me to a motherboard that works well with
linux, is not too terribly expensive, and has support for AGP 8x
(I am going to try a Radeon with the new FireGL drivers, they are
supposed to have good support with X and WineX).
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_869_4348,00.html
Keep in mind these recommends are hardware and not platform orientated. For Linux, I'd recommend stickin to VIA and /or AMD chipset boards. The 'high reviews' you cite are for windoze systems. AGP 8x is a marketing joke. AGP 4x began to negate any advantages over PCI graphics cards (which BTW, AGP is just a subset of the PCI spec). The increased load of AGP on the systems cpu/cache/ram, begins to negate it's dubious advantages overall, which at best are slight anyhow.
Charles is the expert on Radeons, but it's generally advised to go for an older lesser model if you want to use it with Linux and XFree86, as ATI's Linux support sort'a sux, month's late an short. Barely just better than nVidia's.
John
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