[plug] DFI Motherboards - Sound

[Kev]

Of the 8 in my place 7 are AMD (no 2 mobos or processors alike) and 1 is 
  P4.  The only one with any Linux difficulties at all is the P4.

Cheers
Kev


Richard Meyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 20:33 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
>>On Tuesday 11 October 2005 16:31, Paul Mc wrote:
>>
>>>Timothy White wrote:
>>>
>>>>Also, I might as well put it in the same post. If you are looking
>>>>at getting a socket 939 board. I will have 2 boards for sale. An
>>>>'A8V Delux' AGP, Via Chipset. And a WinFast NF4UK8AA PCI-E. If your
>>>>interested. Contact me
>>
>>>I dont want to start a war here,
>>
>>If that were really true, you wouldn't have posted. (-:
>>
>>
>>>But I was excited (I need a new mobo), until I realised they are
>>>both AMD :( 
>>
>>I run 100% AMD, with excellent results.
>>
>>I'm installing a server at the moment. The cheap ASUS _server_ mobo is 
>>capable of running twe PCIe-16 graphics cards (each with two heads) and 
>>includes 8-channel sound. Not to mention optical audio I/O, 8 SATA 
>>sockets (2 of them external) plus the usual PATA, 2 PS/2, 10 USB2, 2 
>>FireWire, parallel, serial, and games ports. Would you like fries with 
>>that? If I'd spent another 30% on it, the customer could have enjoyed 
>>twin dual-core goodness, but the price of the CPUs themselves is pretty 
>>breathtaking -- and oif course you need to buy two. The thing runs 50% 
>>faster than a microwave over anyway, so...
>>
>>The ThermalTake 430W PSU is also amazing, it spins the fan down as far 
>>as stopped if it's not heavily loaded, and has sockets for 9 devices, 
>>plus two floppies, two SATA (includes adaptors for 8 more, potentially 
>>consuming 4 sockets), two ATX supplements and the main connector.
> 
> 
> Nice kit, that.
> 
> Of the 7 computers I have in the house, 5 are AMD and 2 are Celerys. I
> see no difference in reliability, while price/performance on the AMDs is
> way better.
> 
> If I was looking for a lappy, though, the Centrino seems to be the way
> to go - but then the Sempron looks nice, too .....
> 

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