[NTLUG:Discuss] Motherboard for AMD Sempron 2800+ and 184-pin DDR RAM
Gilbert Morrow
gkfmorrow at gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 16:05:59 CDT 2006
SIS cheap and OK but like nVIDIA the best , use to be a VIA fanboy but VIA
lost it crown to nVIDIA some time back , but have read that the VIA EPIA is
very Linux friendly board but it is just 1.0 to 1.3 ghz processor , my two
cents , go with nVIDIA chip .
ECS is a good mainboard had one for a couple of years replaced with a
Shuttle SFF and then gave it to a friend (ECS board) who is running it right
now and still works fine .
On 7/12/06, Kevin E. Ivey <ik04 at isot.com> wrote:
>
> Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> > Kevin E. Ivey wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Leroy Tennison wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I've almost had it with the VIA motherboard I shouldn't have purchased
> >>>for use with Linux. I'd like to re-use the CPU and RAM (Corsair brand
> >>>VS512MB400C3) so I'm looking for a motherboard which will use them.
> >>><snip>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>Find the ECS model that supports your CPU and RAM and all is well...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > WAIT! I remember that it was all ECS motherboards AND all VIA chipsets
> > that are to be avoided! ECS bad, BAD! VIA bad, BAD! Don't use it --
> > wouldn't be prudent!!
> >
> > NVIDIA good, ABIT good!
> >
> > Issues:
> >
> > * ECS motherboards are inexpensive because they are cheep. cheep =
> > failures. If you want an ECS mobo, I have several dead ones you can
> have.
> > * A recent rash of ASUS (and/or/may any via chipset) mobos have a
> > voltage problem due to a bad run of taiwanese capacitors. This can
> > show itself with SATA drives having 'issues'
> >
> > That's what I remember, anyway.
> >
> Get the ECS board with a SiS chipset and it just works...
>
> I have had no problem with ECS boards and have several running now. I
> prefer SIS chipsets and ECS gives me what I want.
>
> My laptop and four home PCs all run with no problems. I have Athlon,
> Athlon64 and Athlo Dual Core systems running with various versions of
> the 700- series SIS chipsets.
>
> They are cheap, but work just as well as the overpriced ones I have also
> bought from Fry's and Tiger Direct...
>
> YMMV,
>
> Kevin
>
>
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