Re: Motherboard recommendations
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 20:52 -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> After doing some digging, it appears that the M57SLI board is not
> completely supported at this point. It needs a bios which I don't yet
> see on Gigabyte's site. See the following msg and replies:
>
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2007-03/msg05024.html
>
> There is some type of workaround using boot parameters, but I didn't
> get
> very far past seeing a comment about Linux not seeing the two cores...
My goof. Further examination? LinuxBios works well with the board,
touted as being the 1st board with an Open Source bios solution.
Apparently the linuxbios boots you up in a matter of seconds (3 is the
record). Only trouble is with a dual boot, as it doesn't (yet) support
XP (for those with a gaming appetite outside of *nix).
I'm actually leaning towards the MSI K9A Platinum now. Runs cooler than
many nVidia boards. I don't OC much, if any, so don't care about the
extreme bios flexibility gamers look for.
Antec case, silent gigabyte nvidia card, hoping for the quietest box
I've made to date with a hot processor.
Kenward
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