[Gllug] Motherboard recommendation

[Doug Winter]

Peter Grandi wrote:
> I think that currently the best value is a nice Athlon 32 on a
> VIA KT880 motherboard (like the Asus A7V880 or the Abit KW7)
> which usually costs less than £35, with perhaps an Athlon Barton
> 3000+, for another £65, for a total of £100 (inc. VAT) which is
> less than the roughly equivalent AMD64 CPU.

+1 for the VIA chipset.  I've had both a K8T800 based mobo (K8V SE) and
an Nvidia based one (a Chaintech), and the VIA chipset worked perfectly,
whereas I had loads of grief with the NVidia chipset in 64-bit Linux.

Cheers,

Doug.


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