Re: Is anyone completely happy with their Core2 motherboard?

General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Is anyone completely happy with their Core2 motherboard? I'm looking for
a board where there are no install issues, LM sensors works, usermode and
ondemand speed governors work, and the Ethernet is fully supported.

You already knmow about our i945-based ASUS P5LD2 SE, which performed
nicely under Debian Etch as far as we tested it, except that we needed
a separate Ethernet card.

More recently, we got a bunch of Supermicro PDSME+ (Intel E7230
chipset) boards with Xeon 30[67]0s (=Core 2 E6[67]00s) and are happy
with them; installation is fine, we did not try lm-sensors, in our
testing the speed governors we tried worked, but we are using the
performance governor (or not using cpufreq at all), because there is
no difference between the power consumption at different speeds when
the CPUs are idle, and when there's a load, we want the fastest speed
anyway. Of the two CPU types we use, one (IIRC the 3070) gave funny
speed numbers (1000, 800, 600 MHz instead of 2666, 2133, 1600) with
some of the cpufreq modules loaded, but that did not cause problems.
The onboard ethernet ports (2 Intel Gigabit ports) work fine.

As others have suggested, if the Intel 965 sucks (and probably the
newer P35 too, then), and you don't find a 945 board anymore, you
might want to look into Nvidia-based boards. If they work fine with
AMD CPUs, you will probably not have Linux compatibility problems with
their variants for Intel CPUs, either.

- anton
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