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I'm attempting a dual core upgrade on a MSI Neo2 |
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Platinum. It requires a BIOS upgrade which just won't |
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boot linux as far as I can tell. Anyone got a Socket |
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939 Mobo which will run 64 bit gentoo with a dual |
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core? |
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http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=89036.0 |
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I've been running a few copies of the Neo2 Platinum |
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and one thing to watch out for is flakey RAM. Had two |
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batches of OCZ RAM go back for warranty replacement |
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followed by a few "emerge -e world" to fix the carnage |
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on the harddrive left behind. |
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BTW, 10K RPM SATA drives give some good numbers with |
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an odd error |
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# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda |
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/dev/sda: |
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Timing cached reads: 4016 MB in 2.00 seconds = |
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2007.87 MB/sec |
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HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: |
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Inappropriate ioctl for device |
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Timing buffered disk reads: 206 MB in 3.02 seconds |
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= 68.21 MB/sec |
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HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: |
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Inappropriate ioctl for device |
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--- Drew Kirkpatrick <drew.kirkpatrick@×××××.com> |
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wrote: |
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> I've been very happy with both nforce 3 & nforce 4 |
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> MSI motherboards. |
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> I've built some graphics clusters with them, and a |
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> number of |
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> workstations, no problems as of yet. You will need |
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> some sort of video |
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> card, but there are a number of cheap ones that |
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> would work fine. A |
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> PCI-Express 6200 nvidia card can be had for well |
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> under $100 now. |
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> On 10/17/05, P.V.Anthony <pvantony@×××××××××××.sg> |
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> wrote: |
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> > James Pattinson wrote: |
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> > > If you have a mobo that you'd recommend for use |
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> with gentoo-amd64, could |
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> > > you please let me know? |
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> > I am using the MSI Neo 4 Platinum. So far so good. |
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> > It has two ethernet ports. One is the forcedeth |
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> and the other is Marvell. |
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> > It has 8 sata ports. No built in graphics card. |
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> > P.V.Anthony |
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