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