Re: Recommendations for 939 motherboard

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:20:00 +0000, Wes Gray wrote:

I'm a bit overwhelmed with all the choices for motherboards. I don't
even understand many of the options. I'd like to get a socket 939 mb
for an Athlon 64 with the following goals (in order of importance):

1. Reliable - this is for my main Linux server/desktop (on 24/7) so good
quality is priority 1, something like an Asus
2. Quiet - No fans would be very nice
3. Fast - what sort of FSB speed do I need?
4. Onboard networking and sound

Appreciate your recommendations. Thanks!

Do you already have a socket 939 CPU? If you already have the CPU then I'd
suggest the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum although any Nforce4 based motherboard
will do. I have an MSI K8N Neo4 with an Athlon64 X2 4400+ and 4G running
Fedora Core 5, it's been running 24/7 for about 18 months.

If you don't have a CPU then you'll want to build a socket AM2 system not
a socket 939. AMD has moved to socket AM2 so there aren't going to be any
new socket 939 parts and the existing parts are going to be increasingly
hard to find although I'm sure that you'll be able to get them for some
time to come. For a socket AM2 motherboard I'd suggest an MSI K9N Platinum
but once again any Nforce motherboard will do. The MSI boards that I
recommended have dual gigabit ethernet controllers and onboard RAID.

The fastest available processors are the new Intel Core2 Duos. They are
just entering the market so it's not clear which motherboards have the
fewest Linux issues. I'm planning on getting a Core2 system sometime in
the next month or so, probably a system with either an Intel 975X chipset
or the Nforce4 for Intel chipset. Last week someone else mentioned that
they got a 965 based motherboard and that there is a driver problem with
the PATA controller (965s are SATA only so they require an external chip
to provide PATA which is still necessary for most DVD and CD drives).



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