Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system
mercredi 23 novembre 2005, 10:37:10 CET, Lennart Sorensen a écrit :
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:46:34PM +0100, Alexander Nagel wrote:
> > Be careful with newer ASUS boards. I have a K8V SE Deluxe and it
> > sucks. I don't know for your board. But if ASUS build it with the same
> > effort, good night.
> > (Problems with BIOS, disk, NIC, etc) Read the ASUS forum
> > first.
>
> My A8V Deluxe runs great. In my experience Asus boards are usually
> great, although I have never bought any of the budget boards (which I
> consider socket 754 boards to be). I have still not found a reason to
> stop buying asus boards for all my machines (I have been doing so for 13
> years now, but if they stop working great for me, I will find something
> else. That is how I went from ati to nvidia for videocards 6 years
> ago).
>
> > http://vip.asus.com/forum/bbs.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=A8N-E
> >
> > Of course probably there are problems with other boards.
> > It's just advice.
>
> Bios problems are common, and some makers will fix them, others won't.
> Asus tends to fix them. I won't say they always do, but they do tend
> to.
>
> Certainly people have said on this list in the past that tha A8N-SLI
> runs linux for them, and the A8N-E is certainly related to it, so
> hopefully it will work similarly.
>
> Len Sorensen
I run a A8N-E with no problem at all.
It has been reported that, on some models, the chipset fan goes noisy. I
hadn't time to notice this as I replaced it with a heat sink.
--
Sylvain Sauvage
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