If yor running multi-cpu boards youll probably use scsi anyway
so chipset isnt such an issue.
im on a dual p3 450 right now, gigabyte board with intel chips.
supermicro boards work damn well for me also, *pats dual p3 800*
Dean
Gareth Walters wrote:
>
> At work we have a whole bunch of Gigabyte Dual P!!! systems and they work ok
> under LINUX (just used as cluster machines) but some of them have Win2k
> running on them and I have encountered the following problems.
>
> USB will not work.
> One of the CPU's constantly reports 65%-80% usage when there is very very
> little happening.
>
> So I am not very impressed with them.
>
> The VIA chipsets we have are running very well and now the onboard sound is
> working under LINUX as well.
>
> ---Gareth Walters
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Wilkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 10:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] speaking of HW ...
>
> > This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead said:
> > >I dont recommend VIA based boards. My gigabyte-ali works well
> > >i havd found gigabyte to generally be good in linux.
> >
> > Have to disagree, my mobo is VIA based and it's smooth as. I've also
> > heard bad stories involving gigabyte mobos ;)
> >
> > Mmm, love that circumstantial evidence.
>
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