Re: MSI RS482M4-ILD (Radeon Xpress 200 chipset)

Mark Baker <mark.baker2@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a Windows machine running on an ASUS mobo with that chipset. It
works fine with Windows, although if you ever want to go to 4GB of
memory, it won't work even with a 64-bit OS; the chipset consumes
address space in the 3-4 GB range and doesn't support remapping.

I have seen that phenomena on an opteron machine with AMD chipset also.
The machine has 4 GB but can only use about 3.5 GB. In the new machine
that I am planning I am only going to have 1 or 2 GB so that will not be
a problem.

Personally, I would recommend the nVidia nForce4 series chipsets. I
just built a Fedora 5 system around an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum,
....
Of course, it doesn't have integrated video, but you can pick up an
nVidia GeForce 6-series card these days for under $100, and the nVidia
driver is available as a Fedora RPM from livna.org; that was a
no-brainer too - I'm using an eVGA 6800XT.

I don't mind to have an nVidia motherboard chipset. However, for external
graphics cards I prefer those ATI cards that have opensource drivers with
working DRI. The planned machine is supposed to be small and quiet and
doesn't have to be that powerful, therefore integrated graphics is
prefered for that one.

regards Henrik
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