Fedora Core 3 Motherboard Recommendations

[Kumara]

I always use Intel materials
so far no HW or SW problems neither newer nor old
in Linux or M$.
Mohan



----- Original Message -----
From: "James Wilkinson" <james at westexe.demon.co.uk>
To: "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 3:06 AM
Subject: Re: Fedora Core 3 Motherboard Recommendations


> Rick Meyer wrote:
> > Some of the Manufacturers I
> > have looked at include ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, and DFI.
>
> then, later:
> > Reliability and stability of the main board is critical.
>
> Looks like you're looking at the right sort of brands, then.
>
> > I have had some not so nice experiences with
> > the SIS chipsets
>
> How long ago was that? It's my experience that some of the chipsets they
> were selling about five years ago, for the AMD K6-2, were *very* bad.
> Since then, they seem to have got better (it would have been difficult
> to have done otherwise and stayed in business).
>
> > - so are the NVIDIA chipsets better for Fedora? Or is a
> > different chipset the way to go?
>
> As you've found, both chipset and motherboard manufacturers are
> important (and, in my experience, the two biggest factors in the
> stability of the system). Nvidia have a good reputation: Via also seem
> to be pretty good. Intel, at least as a chipset manufacturer, has a very
> good reputation.
>
> Most chipsets sold seem to come from one of these three manufacturers:
> ATi seem to have a larger market share of the Intel CPU chipset market
> than the AMD one. This is more important for ongoing compatibility than
> anything else.
>
> > I think manufactures should release some
> > MTBF rates for the motherboards.
>
> One can estimate MTBF rates for something like hard drives, which will
> have one of two or three basic access pattens. But motherboards can be
> used and abused in so many slightly different ways that the only way
> that you can find out the MTBF with any accuracy is to actually wait
> until a fair proportion of the motherboards fail (which should mean at
> least five years).
>
> Details like the manufacturer of the capacitors and the way the
> motherboard is mounted can make a big difference.
>
> >  Also I have come across the NVIDIA SLI
> > certification.  It sounds close to what I want when I purchase a bunch
of
> > motherboards.
>
> Hmm. SLI implies PCI Express. I've got a new and very nice Athlon 64 PCI
> Express system for personal use, and I'm very pleased with it, but I
> think it's still a little new for a super stable system. On the other
> hand, if you're expecting to keep the systems and upgrade them, PCI
> Express will give you more flexibility in the future.
>
> You might find it worth looking at some of the overclocking features:
> stuff like extra cooling of capacitors and better power distribution
> helps motherboard stability even at normal speeds.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> James.
>
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