[NBLUG/talk] Does a Mobo chart exist?

Dean A. Roman droman at romansystems.com
Tue Nov 28 11:36:08 PST 2006


Not an official endorsement or anything, however I have had good luck 
using "directron.com" and "newegg.com".
I personally have had good luck with ASUS, Supermicro, and Intel 
motherboards.

Really bad luck with "pagecomputers.com" as they shipped me an LCD 
monitor with bad pixels and now refuse to even exchange it.
   In fact, they basically refuse to deal with me and told me I had to 
deal with the manufacturer...even though the LCD was broken from the day 
it arrived and I reported it to them the day after I recieved it.
   It doesn't help that the manufacturer, viewsonic, said there needs to 
be 7 or more bad pixels in the center of the screen hindering your view 
before they will exchange a  monitor.  Viewsonic support then told me 
that this happens a lot, and I should not buy from any internet vendors, 
only brick and mortor stores like bestbuy.

Thanks,
    ---Dean.


Todd Cary wrote:

> Sean -
>
> Maybe I am not reading the specs correctly or something, but when I go 
> to TigerDirect or Mwave, all of the mobos appear to be SATA...not 
> IDE...like I am out of date.
>
> Do you know of a good source for motherboards?
>
> Todd
>
> Sean wrote:
>
>> I personally have found that while all motherboards will work with
>> Linux, but it will be the on-board devices that could individually
>> fail to work on the new boards. Once you have the data on these
>> on-board devices, you can look for any supported Linux drivers. If you
>> find them you should be good to go. A good example of this is good
>> support for Intel on-bard network cards, but ATI drivers for on-board
>> video cards used to be harder to come by. I have tried to stick with
>> nVidia chipset motherboards as they seem to have broader Linux driver
>> support.
>>
>> I must admit to not understanding what you mean by IDE compatability
>> for Linux. I you simply mean that it has IDE ports, then virtually all
>> will have at least one IDE port. SATA has not yet completely replaced
>> IDE.
>>
>>
>> Sean
>>
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