I'm currently using the EPOX 8KTA3 motherboard along with a 256MB PC133
stick of SDRAM and a 1Ghz Athlon with a "266 MHz" bus.
The board has six (!) PCI slots, an AGP slot, onboard ATA/100, an ISA
slot (remember those?), four USB connectors, onboard AC97 sound (that I
don't use; my SoundBlaster PCI128 does four-speaker support. It also has
a set of diagnostic LEDs that give information if the machine does not
start, cannot detect a video card, etc. It supports 1.5GB of RAM. (Yum)
I like it.
-- Asheesh.
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Steve wrote:
> If you were asked by someone to build two linux workstations where one
> had to be pentium 4 based and the other athlon based, what two
> motherboards would you use?
>
> For the pentium 4, I was considering the Abit TH7II-Raid (i850 chipset).
> I am not for certain if there are any known issues with mandrake 8.1
> and the i850 chipset. From what I have read I think it will run fine.
>
> For the Athlon, I am unsure which board to use. Which board does not
> have any known problems? I know some VIA chipsets have known problems.
> If these problems have been addressed with the newest Mandrake release
> then great, if not I would like to know which board to use and which to
> stay away from. I would like to be able to run the harddrives at the
> desired speeds of ATA/66 or ATA/100 without any data corruption
> resulting from VIA bugs. I would also like a board with more than two
> DIMM slots. Any input would be appreciated as I would like to order the
> hardware as soon as possible. Thanks.
>
>
>
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