Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Kirby Walborn <kirby@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mobo recommendations
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:39:38
Message-Id: 4353E17D.3040508@walborncattle.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Mobo recommendations by Drew Kirkpatrick
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4 Drew Kirkpatrick wrote:
5 > I've been very happy with both nforce 3 & nforce 4 MSI motherboards.
6 > I've built some graphics clusters with them, and a number of
7 > workstations, no problems as of yet. You will need some sort of video
8 > card, but there are a number of cheap ones that would work fine. A
9 > PCI-Express 6200 nvidia card can be had for well under $100 now.
10 >
11 >
12 > On 10/17/05, P.V.Anthony <pvantony@×××××××××××.sg> wrote:
13 >
14 >>James Pattinson wrote:
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16 >>
17 >>>If you have a mobo that you'd recommend for use with gentoo-amd64, could
18 >>>you please let me know?
19 >>
20 >>I am using the MSI Neo 4 Platinum. So far so good.
21 >>
22 >>It has two ethernet ports. One is the forcedeth and the other is Marvell.
23 >>
24 >>It has 8 sata ports. No built in graphics card.
25 >>
26 >>P.V.Anthony
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28 I would second these recommendations. I have a MSI Neo 4 platinum and
29 it works great. The Nvidia Ethernet uses the forcedeath driver but I
30 have absolutely no problems with it. I'm using a cheap nvidia
31 pci-express card and I am more than pleased with it.
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