[Klug-general] Motherboards

Andrew Spode Miller spode at justfdi.com
Sun Nov 14 14:14:10 UTC 2010


Actually,

I have an Intel Motherboard here, (975 chipset off the top of my
head), with a 3.46GHz Dual Core Extreme Edition CPU, and 2GB of
over-spec DDR2 memory that I'd let go for a very reasonable price (I
have no need for it).

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Alex Layfield
<alex at alexlayfield.force9.co.uk> wrote:
> Intel...
>
>
> /A
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Apps <peter at sheppey.free-online.co.uk>
> Sender: kent-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:01:27
> To: Kent Linux User Group - General Topics<kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Reply-To: Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Motherboards
> I agree but is an ethernet chipset that demanding nowadays? And why is
> my Asus board the only one that won't read memory sticks or wlan
> dongles, yet machines with far lower specifications pick them up without
> trouble. They're all Kubuntu/Lubuntu.
>
> I've had the same problems on two boards now so does Asus buy job lots
> of chipsets that no one else wants or do they cut out bits and call them
> Windows compatible?
>
> Either way, I don't want another Asus so I'm looking for a good general
> purpose board that just works.
>
> Peter
>
> On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 21:55 +0000, Andrew Spode Miller wrote:
>> I find the chipset is more important the manufacturer when it comes to
>> the choice and compatibility.
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Peter Apps
>> <peter at sheppey.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
>> > Having had two Asus boards with unreliable network connections and
>> > failing USB sockets can anyone tell me if Gigabyte motherboards are
>> > still Linux friendly.
>> >
>> > Peter
>> >
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