Denis schrieb: > I'm looking into upgrading to Intel Core 2 Duo (or Quad) family - > perhaps the E6600 Conroe. I'm trying to figure out which > motherboard/chipset would suit my needs best. I'm planning to install > Gentoo Linux on the system, and I need it to be, first and foremost, > stable and reliable - mainly to be used for number crunching (e. g., > Mathematica), simulations, etc... No gaming. I'm between getting an > Intel board with the D975X chipset and a board with the NVidia 680i > chipset. Which of these chipsets is more favored in the Linux > community and which might do better with number crunching > applications?
Why not use the 965P-chipset on a board like the Intel DP965LT? Should be a bit cheaper than the D975X and if you don't need the RAID-functionality, this is a very good board for working purposes IMO. The 965-chipset even beat the 975 in some benchmarks I read ... I use one here with a E6600, running gentoo on a 2.6.21-kernel (dynticks), and everything runs fine and stable. You have to use a kernel >=2.6.20 or so if you want to use the Marvell-PATA-Chip (for CD-ROM or so), but no problem with this, also all the other features (sata, sound, usb, Gbit-LAN, cpu frequency scaling ...) work fine. Dunno about the nvidia-chipset, I personally chose the Intel-board after reading some tests in the german c't-magazine where it did score good points and seemed to fit my needs for a decent workhorse here. Greets, Stefan. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
