On Tuesday March 30 2004 12:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am looking for recommendations on chipsets/mobo etc that work well with > debian. Normally, I would use anything and just make it work, but if I am > gonna spend money I may as well get the best performance I can.
Essentially for Althon XP it seems to be a choice of Nvidia nforce2, or Via KT400/KT600 chipsets. There are lots of performance comparisons around - http://www.extremetech.com/ has numerous. The conclusion is that for the high end boards the Nvidia is marginally (~5%) faster. Personally I've only bought a cheapo XFX KT600-ALX based board recently. It seems rock solid with a 2.6 kernel and all the integrated peripherals including sound (alsa), sata, agp and usb 1+2 seem to be happily working. I've read mixed comments on how well the nforce2 chipset is supported by stock kernels. There's a bad article here: http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/10/1551245&mode=thread ..and searching for nforce2 in newsgroups will bring up countless problems from users. Apparently the audio, AGP and ethernet drivers are still not integrated into the stock kernel. Anybody care to elaborate? Thx Rob -- Robert Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.rnwood.co.uk/ "If you can't make something good, make something look good." - Bill Gates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
