Re: Motherboard recommendations
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On 03/30/07 22:44, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:09:23AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
>> I just built a system with an ASUS M2N2-SLI motherboard and an AMD64
>> cpu. It looks very good so far. I have Etch running from a netinst.
>>
>> The ASUS installation CD contains a directory for Linux giving links to
>> several websites to setup audio and 64 bit operation. I haven't checked
>> these out yet but find it encouraging that a Linux directory is included
>> on the CD.
>
> You won't be needing it. I use straight debian packages for everything.
> Stock kernel but I do use the nvidia video drivers for X: much better
> deinterlacing and resizing of DVDs. E.g. screen is 1600 x 1200 @ 85 Hz,
> watch The Sound of Music in VLC, full-screen, deinterlace-blend. Far
> better fine detail (e.g. edge of a candle frame, wrinkles on the faces,
> facial expression) with the nvidia driver than the nv. Less load on the
> CPU too.
What video card do you use?
> Sound is stock alsa with the usual alsa-config and alsa-mixer. Of
> course, with Etch amd64, there is nothing to 'set up' about 64-bit
> operation.
>
> This is on my Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe MB, Athlon 3800+ single core, single 1
> GB DDR2 800 ram, dual Seagate SATA 80 GB drives.
>
> Note to the OP. You want to use a few IDE devices. This board only has
Am I misunderstanding? Why should he use multiple IDE devices if
the mobo only has one IDE port?
> one IDE port (hda and hdb). It has lots of SATA and an eSATA, lots of
> USB, firewire, great sound, and it will manage the case fans.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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