Hi!

> From: Al Bogner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sorry for this offtopic posting, but after a lot of problems with a XP 2400+ 
> and a nforce2-board (Asus A7N8X), which some of you remember probably, I 
> decided to change the chipset of the motherboard. Which chipset or 
> motherboard would you recommend for a XP 2400+. I would like to use SuSE 8.2 
> and the SuSE-kernel 2.4.21 or to compile a 2.4.21 vanilla-kernel.

        You can't go wrong with an AMD chipset.   I've never thought much
        of the VIA chips (problems abound with those it seems - the archives
        of this group should have quite a few horror stories)

        Alas, from what I've seen the best (but slightly more expensive)
        way to get the AMD chipset is on a dual cpu board.    You don't have
        to run multiple cpus of course so you can save a bit of money that
        way.

        For up to the 2600+ cpus the Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW-P is a real nice
        board.    Overall though the best board at the moment appears to
        be the Tyan 2466 (which has the benefit of an extra PCI slot compared
        to the others).

> I searched the kernel changelog and found a few changes in the last time, but 
> 
>   o Add missing via82xxx PCI ID
>   o add the via ide ident
>   o fix a race and a comment in via_audio
>   o later VIA apic
>   o correct handling of VIA PCI and of IDE legacy irq
>   o add 450NX streaming quirk, add via northbridge detect
>   o AGP support for VIA P4X333 boards
>   o AGP support for VIA KT400

        Note the number of quirks, etc for the VIA chips ;(

        There might be single cpu boards that use the AMD chipset - if so
        one of those would, I think, save you some grief.   For a bit more
        money a dual cpu board would give expansion capability later on,
        a pair of MP2400+ (or faster) cpus would be quite a boost ;)

        Cheers,
        Steven Schultz


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