Re: New AMD64 User - Mainboard Query
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:46:31 +1000, Peter A. Cole
<peteracole@bigpond.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'll be a new AMD64 user in a week or two when I get my new PC, but before I order it, I wanted to find out if it's supported.
>
> I'm planning on getting a Gigabyte GA-K8VM800M with an Athlon 64 3000+ and a SATA HDD as these items fit within my budget. The new socket 939 CPU's and boards don't unfortunately.
>
> I've searched around and found very little information on whether or not this configuration will work successfully with AMD64.
Generally most of the hardware should work. However, the said can't be
said if the onboard SATA RAID is "fakeraid" (ex. Promise) - their RAID
functionality is proprietary fakeraid and you'd be better off using
Linux software RAID
--
Paolo Alexis Falcone
pfalcone@gmail.com
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