ASUS MoBo support for NVidia chipsets in FC

[Deboo ^]

On 4/11/06, Dan <grinnz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> James Wilkinson wrote:
> > Deboo ^ wrote:
> >
> >>      Wanted to know if the ASUS A8N-SLI MoBo supports 64 bit FC4/5
> linux? If
> >> someone is usingthis under FC 64bit, please let me know.
> >>
> >
> > I do. No problems for the parts I use (I don't actually have two PCIe
> > graphics cards, and I've yet to upgrade to a SATA hard drive). I think I
> > upgraded during the FC3 timescale.
> >
> > ... except I initially tried running it with a PCI (not express) Radeon
> > 9250. But that card seemed to be trouble all around.
> >
> > One thing that might surprise you is that at least with the right
> > setting in the BIOS, Cool-n-Quiet / cpufreq works with no further
> > configuration required. You'll run at 1 GHz (with lower electrical power
> > requirements) when you don't need the CPU power. As soon as you start
> > something CPU-intensive, the CPU will go back to full speed.
> >
> > I've known the CPU fan turn itself off in cold weather, because the
> > system wasn't producing enough heat for it to be needed. As soon as I
> > started something processor-intensive, it would start up again.
> >
> > I'm pleased with it.
> >
> > James.
> >
> >
> My Athlon 64's cool'n'quiet also worked "out of the box" like this.
> Again, probably more to do with the CPU/OS interaction than the
> motherboard. It is very nice, though; even Windows can't do that out of
> the box, you have to install a processor "driver".
> -Dan



Thanks for the responses. The  board worked oput of the box, even without
any reinstall of the  OS.  Everything works fine. Thanks again.

Regards,
Deboo



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