Re: ASUS P5P800 Motherboard support

[Syed Huq <rathon@gmail.com>]

I went to the local Fry's Electronics and the ASUS seems like a good
buy. I have not used an AMD before so don't have much experience.
Even if I go with a KV7 as you suggested, I still would like to know
if Debian would work on it.
The hit/miss is tough proposition. By the time I spend on CPU+DDR
Mem+MoBo, it is an expensive project.

- Rathon

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 10:34:03 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:
> Mark Par wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:03:01AM -0800, Syed Huq wrote:
> >
> >>Can you pls tell me if the ASUS P5P800 Motherboard would work with Debian ?
> >>
> >>OR
> >>
> >>Can you point me to a Motherboard Hardware listing that shows which
> >>Motherboard's would work with Debian.
> >
> >
> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/
> >
> >
> 
> I'd like that myself. That HOWTO is not up to date. I have had an Abit
> KT7A mobo for the last 3 years and I am planning a mobo upgrade and will
> go with Abit again. Abit is not in that HOWTO.
> 
> I stand to be corrected but getting a mobo is a hit and miss
> proposition: first you google for problems with Linux, if you don't find
> them, go!
> 
> First of all, I would get an Abit KV7 now. For these reasons:
> - I want to get a faster processor than the 850MHz Athlon I have now. So
> this supports the XP 2700+ of 2.17 GHz, almost 3x faster.
> - But I want a minimum of integrated hardware, this only has sound and
> lan, which the KT7A did not have.
> - I'll have to buy DDR memory, expensive.
> - I'll stick with Abit.
> 
> Now those are not very exact reasons.
> 
> What are your reasons for picking the ASUS P5P800?
> I note that it is for an Intel CPU and costs almost twice more than the
> KV7. I guess I go with AMD because of the trackrecord.
> 
> HTH
> 
> 
> 
> H
> 
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