[plug] Motherboard/cpu suggestions

[Mungo TheB]

I've had 2 Nforce boards and they have BOTH been stable (but I dont leave my 
computer on for days at a time)

the problem with Nvidia and the drivers goes back to Vbios versions
(DONT update unles a reaseon why)
I went back two bios versions and STABLE as :)
I use UT2003 as my test software :)

its handy dual booting and seeing what one os does that the other doesnt :)
Or good for double checking stuff.

MungoTheB

>Brad Campbell wrote:
>
>| I'm currently trawling through the various hardware sites but I thought 
>I'd
>| post this here as someone might have such a thing and pipe up with "Oh 
>yeah
>| and it all works flawlessly with linux" unlike the nForce stuff.
>
>!? What's wrong with the nforce stuff?  Seems to work for me.  Nvidia
>graphics cards are another issues entirely though :-/  (Binary only
>drivers, bleh!)  With the forcedeth driver I can even use the onboard
>network card without messing around with binary drivers.  The only
>real gotcha is that a kernel with APIC enabled on an nforce2 board
>will result in it randomly crashing.
>
>| Quiet is what I'm after. I can't really find anyone with a Shuttle XPC to
>| give me a noise comparison.
>
>I've heard that Shuttles are (or at least used to be) relatively noisy
>as they have small fans which must spin quickly to move a decent
>amount of air.  Hazy on the details though.
>

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