[HLUG] motherboards

[Benjamin Weber]

Hey John

> even the cheapest one seems to fit the bill, but i am worried that
> there might be other factors to take into consideration. i don't want
> to get a cheap board and then find that it's lacking something
> important. equally i don't want to pay for a board with loads of
> gadgets that i will never use.
>

Most boards should have everything you need, one thing you might want to bear 
in mind is that many of the nforce4 boards ( certainly the asus ) have a very 
small (30-40mm) fan for the chipset and i've seen several fail within one or 
two months. Both the nforce4 and via K8Vt800/890 work well with Linux, with 
exception of the onboard sound. You might want to steer clear of the Abit 
Fata1ity boards, seen problems with them and linux. 

Benji