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With PCI express being such a new tech, is there much if any Linux support for it?
| suport for it's included in the 2.6 kernel but i don't know about support for the things that use it. | Well, I'll find out as soon as the Doom 3 client comes out, and let you all know. *note specs in signature*  | 
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| can i just say, that opteron's rule, i thought that Asus had compatability issues with linux? if not, then ill say game, i have a friend who uses nothing but, but again he uses nothign but MS
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Originally Posted by qub333 ...i thought that Asus had compatability issues with linux? | I've not had any issues instllaing diff flavours of Linux on a few of my machines using ASUS baords.
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| excelent, i know that many a companies will try to cheat you on bus speeds, but whats a good fsb? i would think about 800 or something, but i realized ive never bought a mobo, always mooched and never really paid attenton to it.
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Originally Posted by qub333 excelent, i know that many a companies will try to cheat you on bus speeds, but whats a good fsb? i would think about 800 or something, but i realized ive never bought a mobo, always mooched and never really paid attenton to it. | It all depends on the bells & whistles you want.
You can get a very nice mobo with onboard SATA, raid controllers etc...
Take a look here.
Newegg has a very nice selection of pc parts and in the past 3 years that I've been dealing with them have only recieved one bad part and was able to RMA it and got the new one before I was even able to send the dead one back.
And yes, 800 fsb is a good thing. As well as dual channel ram.
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Originally Posted by justwes Quote: |
Originally Posted by qub333 excelent, i know that many a companies will try to cheat you on bus speeds, but whats a good fsb? i would think about 800 or something, but i realized ive never bought a mobo, always mooched and never really paid attenton to it. | It all depends on the bells & whistles you want.
You can get a very nice mobo with onboard SATA, raid controllers etc...
Take a look here.
Newegg has a very nice selection of pc parts and in the past 3 years that I've been dealing with them have only recieved one bad part and was able to RMA it and got the new one before I was even able to send the dead one back.
And yes, 800 fsb is a good thing. As well as dual channel ram. | Erm...that's an Athlon board, not Opteron.
If you want multiple processors, go with Tyan. They are pretty much the best manufacturer of consumer-level server boards.
If you end up going single proc., ASUS is teh shit.
FSB doesn't matter with an AMD64/Opteron as the RAM controller is on the die. This makes the northbridge and FSB non-existant.
If you get an AMD64 (not Opteron), go with the socket 939, as the socket 754 is old/nonexistant anymore. 
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Originally Posted by sarumont Erm...that's an Athlon board, not Opteron. | Actually if you scroll down you will see Opteron mobo and other baords for AMD 64 bit cpus.
Than link is for all ASUS boards. Not just Athlon based baords.
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Originally Posted by justwes Quote: |
Originally Posted by sarumont Erm...that's an Athlon board, not Opteron. | Actually if you scroll down you will see Opteron mobo and other baords for AMD 64 bit cpus.
Than link is for all ASUS boards. Not just Athlon based baords. | I swear that the rest of that page didn't load the first time I looked at it. 
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