[Klug-general] Motherboards

[Andrew Spode Miller]

Hi Peter,

I imagine £60 would fair? It's Corsair overspec DDR2. Budget stuff
costs around £25 - so that's another £35 for a CPU + Motherboard.

Spode

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Peter Apps
<peter at sheppey.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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