Athlon Motherboards
Robert Dege
rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU
Sat Aug 2 11:56:58 EDT 2003
I'm running the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe MOBO. It has 2 NICs (3Com, and nVidia
chip), onboard sound (AC97 compliant), 6 USB (2.0/1.1), 1 AGP (8x), and
6 PCI.
I don't use the onbaord sound since I have an Audigy, but overall it
worked right out of the box with RedHat 9.0. The 3Com NIC was detected
during install, but I needed reference drivers from the nvidia site for
the nvidia NIC. My Geforce2 card works fine with no probs.
THG (Toms hardware) ran tests against the board & found that the nvidia
NIC offered lower CPU overhead than the 3Com, without loss of performance.
I had a few reservations when my RAM wouldn't run in Dual-Channel mode,
but that was fixed in a BIOS upgrade from ASUS's site. Since then, it's
been running without any flaws.
-Rob
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> --------- Original Message --------
> From: nflug at nflug.org
> To: nflug at nflug.org <nflug at nflug.org>
> Subject: Re: Athlon Motherboards
> Date: 02/08/03 03:13
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> > Sounds good, 1 year parts and labor on individual sales, on total system
> sales, 3 year parts AND labor warrany!
> > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 18:51, Joshua wrote:
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> > i may call and get one of those for when i start building my pc
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> > --------- Original Message --------
> > From: nflug at nflug.org
> > To: nflug at nflug.org <nflug at nflug.org>
> > Subject: Re: Athlon Motherboards
> > Date: 02/08/03 02:46
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> > > The older GeForce board will not work in an 8x AGP slot. Bob Meyer
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> > a new GeForce 8X AGP video card from me last week and he was lucky. See,
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> > newer video boards will work in the older AGP slots on the older
> > motherboards but not the other way around. The newer 8X AGP ports have an
> > extra separator in the slot that your older video card does not have. So
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> > would need a new video board for the newer motherboards with 8X AGP ports.
> > > The onboard sound works fantastic with ALSA installed, and this is a
> > standard ATX motherboard so specifically it has onboard, Sound, GamePort,
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> > serial, 1 parallel, 2 USB and PS/2 keyboard and mouse. It has 5 PCI slots
> > and NO ISA slots. None of the newer boards have ISA slots anymore either.
> > So, if you have any ISA cards, they would have to be replaced as well. So
> > really all you would need is a new video board and ethernet card. 10/100
> PCI
> > NIC's are $15.00 and we have the NVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 64MB 8X AGP w/TV
> out
> > video board for $59.00 of the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 64MB 8X AGP DDR w/TV
> out
> > video board for $79.00. I am in Williamsville and by appointment only. If
> > you want, call me tomorrow at 553-8525. Thanks
> > > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 21:06, David Mangani wrote:
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> > > Thanks for the advice. I have an older geforce 2 board, that I
> plan to
> > use at least for now. I also have an almost new 20 gig 7200 rpm hdd I plan
> > to reuse. As for sound, if the on board sound is good and it is supported,
> > I'll save the slot for something else. Does the mainboard you mention have
> > on board usb and or ethernet? Or should I use separate cards for those
> > functions as Kevin suggested.
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> > > Thx again,
> > > Dave.
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> > > P.S. Where is your store? I'm in Clarence. Is it far for me?
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> > > Cyber Source wrote:
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> > > You will probably have a hard time finding a motherboard
> today
> > without onboard sound but that's ok, if you install ALSA, they
> rock!&nbsp;
> > Or, if you want to reuse your SBLive, you could just disable the onboard
> > sound in the BIOS.
> > > I sell Gigabyte motherboards for AMD cpu's
> > > Gigabyte GA-7VA 8xAGP motherboard $109.00
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> > > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 18:14, David Mangani wrote:
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> > > I'm considering doing a rebuild on my box. I intend to go with AMD
> > > again. ( using a k6-2 now ) I want something that WILL work good with
> > > Linux. I don't need every bell and whistle but would like ethernet,
> USB
> > > 2.0 would be nice, sound can be there or not. I have a good SB live
> > > card. Definately don't want on board video. Anyone have a suggestion
> on
> > > a good board that won't break the bank. Would also like a newer board
> > > that supports 333 or even 400mhz ddr. Once I decide on a main board
> I'll
> > > see how much CPU I can afford. LOL
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> > > TIA
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Dege
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