Re: motherboard decision help
From: Andre Costa (acosta_at_ar.microlink.com.br)
Date: 03/29/04
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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:39:04 -0300 To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:54:05 -0600
Christopher Bottaro <cbottaro@geocenter.com> wrote:
> On Mar 14, 2004, at 1:41 AM, Randy Kelsoe wrote:
> > I am using the GigaByte GA-7N400 Pro2 MB, which uses the Nvidia
> > nforce2 chipset. I'm not using any of the Nvidia drivers. This mobo
> > uses the RealTek 8169 onboard gigabit lan, and not the nforce2 lan.
> > I tried using the Nvidia drivers for the onboard sound, and they had
> >
> > problems. Anaconda selected the intel8x0 driver for the onboard
> > video, and that works much better than the Nvidia driver. This mobo
> > has worked well with RH9 (but needed a later kernel), and has worked
> > well with FC1 right out of the box. It's almost twice the price of
> > the GA-7VT600-L, but it has SATA, RAID, and Dual Channel memory. I'm
> > not using the RAID, but SATA works (though not at full speed yet),
> > and dual channel memory is about 50% faster than single channel
> > mode. There is also a cheaper model that does not have the RAID and
> > SATA, and has a 100base T NIC.
>
> excuse my naivety, but is dual channel memory and hardware raid OS
> transparent?
dual-channel RAM, yes. Hardware RAID, no -- you will need to tweak your
kernel for that.
> i'm looking to build a new computer also. i can't decide if its going
> to be a windows box (for games) or a linux system. if i can afford
> it, i want SATA, RAID 0, and dual channel memory. if the hardware
> RAID is transparent to the OS, i'd rather do that.
Well, you can have both (a dual boot system), that's what I have here. I
have a ASUS A7N8X Deluxe, which has dual-channel mem and onboard SATA
RAID. I personally don't use SATA RAID yet, but I've read reports on
this list of people using it successfully.
> a couple of questions.
>
> 1) how do i know if dual channel memory is working? is it OS
> transparent, or do i need to install drivers?
In my case, BIOS prints useful diagnostics during boot.
> 2) "but SATA works (though not at full speed yet)", how do you know
> what speed its working at?
hdparm -T /dev/hdX
hdparm -t /dev/hdX
> 3) how do you know if you got the RAID setup properly?
Can't help you with this, sorry.
> btw, i heard nforce2 has issues with linux:
> http://atlas.et.tudelft.nl/verwei90/nforce2/
> opinions?
My mobo uses this chipset. Network can only be achieved with NVidia
drivers, but works well (there is a reverse-engineered GPL driver in the
wild, but it is still beta AFAIK). ALSA supports nforce2 just
fine (actually better than NVidia).
HTH
Andre
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