[H-GEN] Recommendations for AMD 64bit H/W

[Brendan McCarthy]

Ronald,

I've recently build a system based on the Asus A8N-SLI  
"Premium" (Socket 939), which is based on the nforce-4 chipset.  
Everything has worked flawlessly for me, using the 64 bit edition of  
Ubuntu 5.10. Also, I have built a smaller system using a Gigabyte  
K8NS nforce-3 board (socket 754), again with Ubuntu 5.10 it is  
working fine, though only 32 bit, but the 64 bit live cd seemed to  
work without any problems. S754 is much cheaper these days, but the  
upgrade path is limited. If you are looking to upgrade to a dual core  
cpu in the future, you'll have to get a S939 board.

Cheers,
Brendan


On 05/02/2006, at 13:38 PM, Ronald Bradford wrote:

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> Hi All,
>
> I'm wanting to upgrade my Linux server, so I'm going to take the  
> plunge and buy new H/W.  I've sort of decided to go with the AMD  
> Athlon, to trial both 64 bit, and AMD, both of which I have neither  
> tried.  Before I rush out and buy a motherboard, could anybody give  
> me recommendations, or more specifically bad experiences of linux  
> incompatibility.
>
> For H/W I'm looking at a 3000+/3200+ CPU,  2GB RAM, onboard LAN/ 
> Sound and suggestions for a video card that can do dual head.   
> Currently, I use a Raedon, but it looks like the newer cards with  
> digital output can run 2 analog signals with a converter  (anybody  
> doing this to confirm would also be most helpful)
> I'm planning on using either CentOS 4.2 (which is my current OS),  
> or try SUSE 10.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
>
> Ronald Bradford
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