[Klug-general] Motherboards

[Peter Apps]

I'd be very interested. I've no idea of what would be reasonable so I'll
trust your judgement.

Peter.

On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 14:13 +0000, Andrew Spode Miller wrote:
> 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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