On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 12:01:12PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/30/07 22:44, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:09:23AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> I just built a system with an ASUS M2N2-SLI motherboard and an AMD64 > >> cpu. It looks very good so far. I have Etch running from a netinst. > > You won't be needing it. I use straight debian packages for everything. > > Stock kernel but I do use the nvidia video drivers for X: much better > > deinterlacing and resizing of DVDs. E.g. screen is 1600 x 1200 @ 85 Hz, > > watch The Sound of Music in VLC, full-screen, deinterlace-blend. Far > > better fine detail (e.g. edge of a candle frame, wrinkles on the faces, > > facial expression) with the nvidia driver than the nv. Less load on the > > CPU too. > > What video card do you use?
Asus EN7300GT Silent (nVidia GeForce 7300 GT), 245 MB video ram. Fanless. In my case (CM-Stacker with cross-flow fan), the GPU stays at 35 C even without a fan on the video card. To clarify on the nvidia driver: its the standard nvidia-kernel package, I don't roll my own with module-assistant or anything. > > Note to the OP. You want to use a few IDE devices. This board only has > > Am I misunderstanding? Why should he use multiple IDE devices if > the mobo only has one IDE port? The OP gave a list of hardware that he wanted to be able to use with the new MB, among which were IDE hard drives in addition to the CD/DVD. I suppose that he could get this MB and find a cheap PCI IDE card rather than buy new drives. > > one IDE port (hda and hdb). It has lots of SATA and an eSATA, lots of > > USB, firewire, great sound, and it will manage the case fans. > > Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
