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Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Thanks for all the input, Dale and Volker! |
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> I think I settle for a GA-880GMA-UD2H ([1]). Basically, it's the little |
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> brother of what Volker proposed. I need a Micro-ATX board. Originally, I |
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> ruled out all Asrock and Gigabyte boards because because they usually |
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> come with 2 PCI slots, 1 PCIe x16 and 1 PCIe x1. I rather want another |
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> PCIe 1x instead of the second PCI slot. Asus, Foxconn and MSI offer that. |
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> This particular Gigabyte board, however, offers a second PCIe 4x (in a |
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> physical x16 slot). I guess that's even better. Although the arrangement |
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> on the board will make it dificult to use two larger extension cards in |
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> both big PCIe slots. |
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> Regards, |
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> Florian Philipp |
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> [1] |
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> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128445&Tpk=GA-880GMA-UD2H |
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When you get ready to build your kernel, check out this link. |
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http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/Giga-byte/GA-880GMA-UD2H+rev2.0 |
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That should tell you what drivers it needs and save you some headaches |
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trying to figure them out. |
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Nice mobo too. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |