Re: Motherboard recommendations

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 12:01:12PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 03/30/07 22:44, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:09:23AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
I just built a system with an ASUS M2N2-SLI motherboard and an AMD64
cpu. It looks very good so far. I have Etch running from a netinst.

You won't be needing it. I use straight debian packages for everything.
Stock kernel but I do use the nvidia video drivers for X: much better
deinterlacing and resizing of DVDs. E.g. screen is 1600 x 1200 @ 85 Hz,
watch The Sound of Music in VLC, full-screen, deinterlace-blend. Far
better fine detail (e.g. edge of a candle frame, wrinkles on the faces,
facial expression) with the nvidia driver than the nv. Less load on the
CPU too.

What video card do you use?

Asus EN7300GT Silent (nVidia GeForce 7300 GT), 245 MB video ram.
Fanless. In my case (CM-Stacker with cross-flow fan), the GPU stays at
35 C even without a fan on the video card. To clarify on the nvidia
driver: its the standard nvidia-kernel package, I don't roll my own with
module-assistant or anything.


Note to the OP. You want to use a few IDE devices. This board only has

Am I misunderstanding? Why should he use multiple IDE devices if
the mobo only has one IDE port?

The OP gave a list of hardware that he wanted to be able to use with the
new MB, among which were IDE hard drives in addition to the CD/DVD. I
suppose that he could get this MB and find a cheap PCI IDE card rather
than buy new drives.

one IDE port (hda and hdb). It has lots of SATA and an eSATA, lots of
USB, firewire, great sound, and it will manage the case fans.



Doug.


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