Re: Dual-Core Linux/Win machine: opinions (and facts, if any :-)), please

On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:17:36 +0100
Jens Tingleff <jensting@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Vladimir Florinski wrote:

On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:52:23 +0100, Jens Tingleff wrote:


MSI has this board as non-ECC memory only (as does Crucial's advisor :-)
). Do you know of a reasonable Dual-Core motherboard which handles ECC
and is not too badly broken?

Best Regards


I must admit it is rather uncommon for motherboards to support unbuffered
ECC memory and Asus may be an exception here. These modules are hard to
find and they do not come in pairs for dual channel support.

Crucial claims to do them (and a www shop in the UK claims to stock them).
Quite a bit more expensive, and a small bit of a gamble (if the memory
turns out not to work, then what?).

In server
applications registered ECC memory is preferred and there are a few boards
(based, e.g., on the Nforce4 Pro chipset) that support this. If you
require ECC and want to avoid excessive spending, you could probably get
the Asus, but be prepared to fix the broken ACPI tables.

OK, I'll keep a sharp eye out for that - thanks for the heads-up.


Jens,

I recently build a 3800+ dual core on A8V, although I am running
32 bit kernel and Suse dist. Works just fine, the main problem
was getting the MB sound to work as linux doesn't yet support
the EMU sound card it has for w2k. A recent patch (pointer
from this group) fixed it.

The nVidia support is quite good, I used a 6600GT which is
a nice mid-range card. A couple of probs rebuilding the driver
for the patched kernel, but did get it working eventually. I
believe NV actually has a pretty good rep for linux support.

I had no probs with ACPI in particular.

HTH

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