Motherboard choice for Fedora

[Randy Kelsoe]

Mick Mearns wrote:

>Hello list;
>  I am considering the following two motherboards.
>This will be "the one" for the next 4-years or untill 64bit CPU's are
>affordable.
>Both are available locally.
>
>What would you choose??
>Any experiences pro/con??
>
>Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe or Gigabyte GA-7NNXP
>
>They both use the nVidia nForce2 chipset, 400 FSB and have serial ATA.
>
>Thanks
>  Mick
>

Can't say anything about the Asus, but the Gigabyte should work well. I 
have been using the similar GA-7N400 Pro 2 for about 6 months with no 
problems. Since the Gigabyte does not use the nforce2 NIC,  you should 
not need to load the closed-source Nvidia drivers. SATA is being used in 
PATA mode, so it's slower than ATA 100, but that is supposed to change 
soon.