[ILUG] AMD64 anyone?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Paul Reilly (paulr at maths.tcd.ie):

> Any recommendations on a socket 754 motherboard?
> I'd ideally like one with dual (Gigabit) Ethernet.
> 
> I was thinking of the Gigabyte GA-K8VNXP board.
> Does anyone what the support for these chipsets is?
> 
> VIA K8T800 Chipset
> VIA VT8237 Chipset
> 
> http://www.xpcgear.com/gigak8vnxp.html

Here's a useful page:
http://pcburn.com/help-AMD_Athlon_64bit.php

Some comments of my own:

VT8237 South Bridge:   For the SATA functionality, you'll want your
installation kernel to be either a _very_ recent 2.4.x kernel or
(preferably) a 2.6.x one.  See "Serial ATA" on
http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Hardware .  Ethernet chipset is
Realtek 8110S, and appears to require a very, very recent version of the 
Linux r8169 driver.

K8T800 North Bridge:  Seems as if there have been bouts of stability 
problems depending on your BIOS revision.

Me, I think I'd go with the ASUS K8V or Tyan S2875, but that's my bias
speaking.

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Rick Moen
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