Fedora Core 5 + Athlon 64 + Nvidia Motherboard

[Net Llama!]

On 05/13/2006 03:44 AM, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 19:08 -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>> I've heard mixed reviews of this board.  Are you tied to MSI for any 
>> particular reason?
>> 
> <Shameless_plug>
> Ever since I bought a Pentium Pro-200 from MSI that just REFUSED to die,
> no matter how I abused it, I've stuck with MSI. I've never had problems
> with MSI motherboards, and I've had bad experiences with other brands,
> notably Abit. Gigabyte is a bit too cheap for me to trust it, while Asus
> is always too expensive. 
> </Shameless_plug>

That's understandable.  I've not used MSI boards very much, but overall 
I've heard that some work well, and others are very unstable.  For me, 
the same applies to Abit & Gigabyte.  Asus is pricey, although their 
boards seem to be quite good, and I've used a few recently.

> 
>> Here's a Biostar board that is roughly equivalent to the MSI you posted 
>> above:
>> http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=tforce+6100-939
>> I've personally been using this one at work for the past 6 months (first 
>> with FC4, and now with FC5), and haven't had any problems with it.
>> 
> Thanks for the tip! I've checked with several shops at Sim Lim (that's a
> popular electronics center in Singapore) and they don't seem to stock
> Biostar AMD motherboards. Strange, but it could be because the brand is
> not in demand. 

Oh well.

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