motherboard decision help

[fred smith]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 07:09:09AM -0600, Randy Kelsoe wrote:
> Randy Kelsoe wrote:
> 
> >I am using the GigaByte GA-7N400 Pro2 MB, which uses the Nvidia 
> >nforce2 chipset. I'm not using any of the Nvidia drivers. This mobo 
> >uses the RealTek 8169 onboard gigabit lan, and not the nforce2 lan. I 

Randy:

What network driver is being used for this gigbit chipset?

I've just installed TAO linux on it and it didn't pick up the presence
of that chip. (Though knoppix does, it "just worked"!)

Thanks!
> >tried using the Nvidia drivers for the onboard sound, and they had 
> >problems. Anaconda selected the intel8x0 
> 
> driver for the onboard video, and that works much better than the Nvidia 
> driver. This mobo has worked well with RH9 (but needed a later kernel), 
> and has worked
> 
>   (yikes! that should have been 'onboard audio' not 'onboard video')
> 
> well with FC1 right out of the box. It's almost twice the price of the 
> GA-7VT600-L, but it has SATA, RAID, and Dual Channel memory. I'm not 
> using the RAID, but SATA works (though not at full speed yet), and dual 
> channel memory is about 50% faster than single channel mode. There is 
> also a cheaper model that does not have the RAID and SATA, and has a 
> 100base T NIC.
> 
> >
> >
> 
> 
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