Looking for 64bit DualCore board for FC3

[Peter Reed]

Jonathan Berry wrote:

>On 11/16/05, Mark <msalists at gmx.net> wrote:
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>>Hi everybody,
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>>I am looking for a board that supports 64bit AMD dual core processors, and that works with a Fedora Core 3 out-of-the-box
>>installation.
>>Can anybody recommend anything that they have installed FC3 on without problems (meaning no missing HD controller-, NIC controller-,
>>chipset-, video-drivers)?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>MARK
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>Any reason you are particular about core 3 and not upgrading to the
>current core 4?
>I just bought a Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI and it seems to work quite
>nicely with Fedora Core 4 x86_64.  I bought only a single core
>processor, but the board claims to be dual core ready.  I had no
>problems with the NIC, SATA controller (make sure (F)RAID support is
>turned off), or chipset.  I'm using a PCI-e GeForce 6600 GT which
>worked with both nv (open source) and nvidia (binary) drivers.  It was
>also a very reasonable price at about $100 (cheaper than other SLI
>boards) and includes a 1394b (the new faster version) controller on it
>(not tested, though since I have no firewire devices).
>
>Jonathan
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I have the same board minus the SLI and have a dual core AMD64 3800+ , 
PII-e  GeForce 6600 GT and all is well with Fedora 4.

Peter